[lit-ideas] Re: nameless celebrities?

Mirembe writes:

The only non-Bible case I could think of is Coleridge's "person from 
Porlock", he who interrupted Coleridge's recording of his Kublai Khan 
vision. Why can't I think of more cases?

There is the ubiquitous man in the Macintosh in Ulysses, who appears at 
a funeral Leopold bloom attends, and reappears throught the day. His 
identity is one of the 'riddles of Ulysses.' I wouldn't call him a 
'celebrity' though.

See http://www.robotwisdom.com/jaj/ulysses/riddles.html

Robert Paul
Reed College
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