“... relation is a frame, a space within which two beings coexist, at ease, yet their thoughts are unknown to each other. Pollock’s reading of these representations is subtle and incisive. While she draws heavily on psychoanalytic theory for her interpretations, she never neglects the formal specificity of individual works, for it is only their concrete ...”

“... years after the events described in The Silence of the Lambs, with Lecter still free, whereabouts unknown, and Clarice still in the FBI. Her career, however, has stalled, thanks to a combination of jealous colleagues and her own anti-talent for office politics. This is the first big change in the world of the new book: the FBI of the first two novels ...”

“... biggest joke is that the pack has no joker. The cycle, ‘Give Me Back My Rags’, personifies the unknown joker and attempts to exorcise his power. The speaker of the poem refuses to play the game: Damn your root and blood and crown And everything in life The thirsty pictures in your brain The fire-eyes on your fingertips And every every step To three ...”

“... number of refugee children from Europe, many of them Jewish or whose parents’ whereabouts were unknown, were turned down, after some discussion. Nineteen batches of children went out: eleven to Canada, three to Australia, three to New Zealand and two to South Africa. Sixteen arrived safely at their destinations. With French bases at their disposal, the ...”

“... also found time to make a collection of plants for the Kew herbarium, including specimens hitherto unknown) gave him a taste for foreign fields, and in 1857 he applied to join David Livingstone’s expedition to the upper reaches of the Zambezi. Livingstone had sailed to South Africa as a missionary in 1841 and returned to England 15 years later to find that ...”

“... years. His private fears, the loss of his family, friends and comrades, the terrors of the unknown occasionally break through – ‘Two years ago, I still had my normal social activity, my job, my home and my wife next to me, my brother, his child and all my near and dear ones . . . I didn’t yet think how soon I would be a refugee and didn’t ...”

“... disturbance in the earth should initiate (or defer) other disturbances, but the mechanisms remain unknown. You can see why this might appeal to Murakami’s imagination. His work displays a preoccupation with profound and mysterious underground connections, of both literal and metaphorical kinds. The hero of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, his heftiest ...”

“... is threatened by the knowledge that even the most powerful states are vulnerable to assault from unknown and unpredictable sources. It can now be said that in the international arena ‘the weakest has strength to kill the strongest,’ or they would do, if only they could get their hands on the necessary equipment. This, potentially, changes everything. It ...”

“... through the waves outside . . . almost as if he were on the Beagle again, sailing into some unknown port, where people felt it was a natural consequence of English life that he should ask and that they should do.’ As this last phrase hints, neither Darwin on the Beagle nor Darwin at Down ever worked in isolation, though Darwin himself sometimes ...”

“... give us a little modesty about what we can and cannot know, and a little humility before the unknown.’ One can only wish that Ruse had heeded his own advice. In the words of the physicist Richard Feynman: ‘I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be ...”

“... in particular in the tropics, in Asia and Africa, even these few were regularly incapacitated by unknown diseases against which Europeans had very little resistance. It has been calculated that some 20 per cent of the European troops employed by the East India Company were out of action at any given moment because of disease. Britain, one senior analyst ...”

“... secret, the volume of commerce and the final destinations for birds being captured was unknown to anyone but a few dealers, trappers and rare-parrot collectors.’ The only hope, apart from wholehearted government protection, was collaboration and co-operation among the wealthy collectors. As Juniper remarks in passing, people don’t tend to get ...”

“... the captain. When the mate had sailed close enough, Pollard yelled: ‘I have been attacked by an unknown fish, and he has stove my boat.’ The fish, probably a shark, was driven off and the boat repaired, but this reminder of the Essex’s demise raised the ugly question of what would happen if one of the boats were to founder. While ‘we should have felt ...”

“... Year revellers attempted to surprise him with his family in January 1400; the following Christmas, unknown hands tried to poison his food. There were plans to smear the King’s saddle with a poisonous ointment, so that he would swell up and die, and there was consternation when an ingenious iron man-trap was discovered in the royal bed. Such domestic ...”

“... blazed and faded,enemies changed their address,and War made uglyan uncountable numberof unknown neighbours,precious as us to themselves:but round your image there is no fog,and the Earth can still astonish.Or this almost Yeatsian evocation (June 1965) of what a love that was not faithless would look like:How, but with some real focusof ...”