[lit-ideas] Re: nameless celebrities?
- From: John Wager <johnwager@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 16:18:15 -0600
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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