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“... confinement. Yet even as Kinski wanders the maze-like corridors and anticipates her rape by the unknown despot who has abducted her, both heroine and audience come to realise that this place has little in common with the erotic prison they have anticipated. It is not just that modernity has entered the harem in the form of tapedecks and VCRs, but that an ...”

“... loving, and poetry: ‘The clouds ...’, ‘P.H.T.’, ‘These things that poets said’, ‘The Unknown’, ‘Celandine’. It was immediately followed by ‘The Unknown’, a Muse-poem: She is to be kissed Only perhaps by me; She may be seeking Me and no other: she May not exist. Thomas’s dialectic swings between ...”

“... of the page were the stories she heard in the kitchen of her brownstone house, told by the ‘unknown bards who would put an apron and a pair of old house shoes in a shopping bag and take the train or streetcar from our section of Brooklyn out to Flatbush’ several mornings a week to clean the homes of white folks. These women were her principal ...”

“... walking along a residential road in Surrey, Barker was struck on the arm by an egg, thrown by some unknown person, from an unknown place, with an unknown motive. The egg’s impact left an ‘oval weal on my upper arm about six inches in length with a puffy inflamed centre’ which lasted ...”

“... strangely uplifted by the transmigration of ailments between genera and sub-groups heretofore unknown. Swine Flu, Deer-Tick Disease, Feline Leukaemia, Brown Bat Rabies and, of course, Parrot Fever must be ruled out at his quarterly physical examinations. He is, and will suffer no quarrel on this account, the only known survivor of Mad Cow ...”

“... violence in the country’s history. (I say perhaps because the exact number of victims remains unknown.)Ellsworth, who teaches at the University of Michigan, grew up in a whites-only neighbourhood in segregated Tulsa. He became an award-winning journalist, writing on everything from mountain climbing to the history of basketball. But ever since setting out ...”

“... connection with the past – something that reflects what she calls our ‘dull fear of the unknown’. People seek out objects, images, texts and sensations which they will reframe and recontextualise: history is ‘raw material, destined for editing’. Sarra’s postcards and Mikhail’s brickwork seem to promise a tangible connection to a ...”

“... the narrator, Alexis, of his late father’s obsession with finding the treasure of the so-called Unknown Corsair on the island of Rodrigues. But Alexis’s search for the treasure is not what the book is really about. The narrative provides the framework for a series of bravura passages about beauty (of the sea and of the islands of Mauritius and ...”

“... swamps that were spread out to dry like linen, the animals appeared, some familiar, some entirely unknown; it was like the banks of the Nile when the river wastes away and the fellaheen who turn up clogs of mud find a world half-dead, half-alive with crawling things, offspring of the marriage of warmth and water. Birds wheeled and cried on ...”

“... a consummation Where only one thing was certain: The actual, sundering death. The rebirth Unknown, uncertain. Only that death In the mercy of water, at the star of the source – Devoured by revelation, Every molecule seized on, and tasted, and drained Into the amethyst of emptiness – I came back to myself.            A spectre of ...”

“... Simeon the potter – with two white jars to his right. The prone figure at Gabriel’s feet is an unknown ‘Gyorgis’, possibly another donor. The smaller scenes surrounding the windows are illustrations of the Hebrew Bible and the Gospels. First left on the top register is an angel staying Abraham’s hand as he prepares to sacrifice Isaac, followed by ...”

“... as the discreet object of someone else’s desire revives her feelings for her partner. The unknown leads her back to the deeper and more enduring mystery of the known; and the story ends with her delivering flowers to her partner – accompanied, naturally, by a blank card. ‘Virtual’ makes similar tentative links: a woman encounters a hospitalised ...”

“... One hypothesis which has been canvassed recently is that schizophrenia was a novel condition, unknown before the end of the 18th century, which spread as a slow, possibly viral epidemic across Europe and the United States in the 19th century, contributing in large measure to the vast increase in the population of asylums, and culminating in its ...”

“... than superfluous detail. He brings us close to the living temper of a poet who is still fairly unknown to English-speakers but who, through his impact on T.S. Eliot, could claim to be the inventor of modern poetry. Laforgue’s short life was full of dramatic changes. Born in 1860 in Montevideo, he was brought to France at the age of six. (The 75-day ...”

“... rather than her public greatness … It is this passion for life, for her art and for something unknown beyond both, that was compelling her and driving her forever on.’ Miss Stassinopoulos worked hard at her research and unearthed three particularly enlightening sources. The first was Callas’s correspondence with her godfather, Leonidas Lantzounis, a ...”