“... on ideas of mutuality, substitution and a common littoral identity’, as people buried their unknown comrades in coastal society to establish a ‘translocal community of grief’. In all these ways, Kosmin argues, the Hellenistic coastline became a ‘hyperobject’, like evolution or global warming today: ‘massively distributed entities relative to ...”

“... the Fringe only two of the four writer-performers were ex-Footlights; TW3 was largely cast from unknown faces in Spotlight; and Monty Python was an ex-Cambridge cum ex-Oxbridge combination put together at the BBC after its respective contributors had graduated through several other television shows each. But such facts, as Mr Hewison sighingly concedes, are ...”

“... territory previously charted (sometimes by themselves), rather than on setting off for the unknown. But the territory now looks much broader – and more full of pitfalls – than it did even ten years ago, and is more or less unrecognisable as the terrain explored by Bentham and Mill. The view that utility consists in pleasure and the absence of ...”

“... Edinburgh resembles a Moretto. One begins to doubt whether anything in the image stock is wholly unknown to any participant and presently ex-historians fall to wondering about a collective unconscious. The only undoubted fact is that Lombard painters maintained the empirical method that was one potentiality of the Giorgionesque innovation, and there in ...”

“... use it in guns! Those ridiculous knights, peacocking about in plumes and shining armour when all unknown to them they had been made completely obsolete by democratic militias with muskets! The ideas converge in Mark Twain’s Connecticut Yankee, who (somehow transposed to King Arthur’s court) quickly runs up ‘a few bushels of first-rate blasting ...”

“... members; the police and state mortuaries are often stacked to the ceiling with the bodies of unknown paupers and accident or murder victims whose next of kin cannot readily be traced. Even when corpses are claimed, however, poor families often find it hard to meet the cost of a coffin or of transporting the body to the cemetery of their choice. Nor do ...”

“... Brando in The Wild One, the ideal of ‘true courage: the kind which enables men to face the unknown regardless of the consequences’. That outlaw pose adopted in his teenage conflicts with Southern authority has never been dropped. In ‘The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved’, an influential essay written in 1970, he described a day at the ...”

“... who in his descriptions of landscapes and glaciers is presented as a major (and completely unknown) anticipator of 20th-century thought. There is, alas, a sloppy garrulousness about some of Rosen’s exposition: not in his analysis of individual musical pieces, but in his relentless paraphrasing of, and haughty quotation from, intellectual and poetic ...”

“... makes great play with the anti-semitism of Tsarist Russia, which was of a degree of nastiness unknown elsewhere. He quotes a chilling little conversation between the Tsarist Minister, Count Witte – by Russian standards a liberal and a moderniser – and Theodore Herzl, the founder of Zionism, in the course of which Witte remarked: ‘I used to say to ...”

“... Freud; moreover Freud’s nudes, unlike Degas’s, are not anonymous, even if their identity is unknown to us. Freud is concerned to get as close as possible to individuals; and what may seem to be a loss of dignity can be the pre-condition for his regard. The London exhibition contains a painting of a nude woman made by Freud before he discovered himself ...”

“... The mysteries of the universe – the wheeling stars, the desperate predatoriness of animals, the unknown forebears, the languages beyond hearing, the bewildering inner spaces – seem borne over against him more than ever before, and in his at times manic isolation he turns for comfort to simple people and simple creatures: the old Highland woman whose hands ...”

“... were so strong that merely to visit a bookshop in Hamra Street was a perilous foray into the unknown – particularly after the bombing of Libya that was carried out by US planes, some of them flying from British airfield. The strike against Libya was partly engineered by Colonel North himself. It was perhaps three weeks after the Tripoli bombings ...”

“... and Browns living in grossly over-crowded conditions, can lead to an out-of-control degradation unknown in the worst of Third World slums.’ Thoughts of the future make her ‘heartsick’: a country that cannot look after its own white ‘sub-proletariat’ offers little hope to Browns and Blacks. And yet, by its end, this is not a pessimistic book. White ...”

“... in Fin-de-Siècle fiction in which male listeners assemble to hear a tale brought back from the unknown: Kipling’s soldiering stories, Wells’s The Time Machine, James’s The Turn of the Screw, Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. The uncanniness of these tales at once unsettles the men assembled and confirms them in their privileged access to a knowledge kept ...”

“... he says that, to be scientific, chronology needs to work backwards in time from the known to the unknown. There are many other rewards in Potocki’s novel. The Diderotesque paradoxes by which his characters seem doomed to live are most engaging – for instance, the code of honour which compels the young merchant Lope Soarez, at great expense to himself, to ...”