Word: namelessness
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...nameless shame...
...Nameless Shame. Von Salis has few such events to record: A visit to an abandoned chapel to put flowers on the altar or "a feast of reconciliation" (i.e., a chat) with a tardy postman are typical adventures. By common standards, Rilke did not "live" at all. The events of his life took place within his poetry...
...wants "to get involved" with these unknown and unloved neighbors-it may cost time to testify in court, maybe bring on a lawsuit for interference or for some nameless of fense. The Decent Citizen and Taxpayer is apt to feel that taking any kind of action is unwise, unsafe-and unnecessary...
...done nothing else, Erich Remarque has given to modern fiction a new sort of nonhero-the nameless and rootless refugee who is forever on the run. In Remarque's new novel, the refugee goes by the name of Schwarz-but Schwarz, of course, is not his real name. He has taken the name and the identification papers of a dead man named Schwarz (who in turn had taken them from another dead man named Schwarz). The obvious implication of this hall-of-mirrors symbolism is that loss of identity is the chronic condition of modern man and that...
Amid pantings and groanings and the passage of "vast tracts of time," a nameless subhuman progresses on hands and knees across a sea of mud at a fixed rate of 40 yards a year. He is teased by quavery memories of a nightmare picnic and a life with a woman somewhere "above...