[lit-ideas] Re: nameless celebrities?

There's the "hero" of Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground, and also 
almost-anonymity: the "character" known as "A" in Kierkegaard's Either/Or.

Mirembe Nantongo wrote:

>I discover that Potiphar's wife, wicked seductress of Joseph, actually has a 
>name and it's Zuleika.  The Bible gives her no name, but Persian legend 
>obliges, it appears. An aggravating discovery, since she was one of only 
>four famously anonymous people I can think of at the moment. Two others are 
>also from the Bible - Pharoah's daughter rescuer of Moses and the Good 
>Samaritan. 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?
>
>Moribund of brain in rain-soaked Tunis, Mirembe
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