On the other hand, Blanchot's own literary works, like the famous Thomas the Obscure, heavily influenced Levinas ' and Bataille's ideas about the possibility that our vision of reality is blurred because of the use of words ( thus making everything you perceive automatically as abstract as words are ).

Called " Jude the Obscene " by at least one reviewer, Jude the Obscure received a harsh reception from scandalised critics ; it is thought largely for this reason that Hardy made the decision to produce only poetry and drama for his remaining 32 years.

Blanchot's best-known fictional works are Thomas the Obscure, an unsettling récit (" is not the narration of an event, but that event itself, the approach to that event, the place where that event is made to happen ") about the experience of reading and loss ; Death Sentence ; Aminadab and The Most High ( about a bureaucrat in a totalitarian state ).

* Interview with The Flaming Lips on Obscure Sound

* Jesus ' Blood Never Failed Me Yet / The Sinking of the Titanic ( with Gavin Bryars and others, Obscure Records, 1975 )

It has been suggested that this frieze with its Latin motto is the real counterpart of the one translated for the waiting crowd by the title character of Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure.

On January 27, 2004, Elektra / Asylum / Rhino Records released Campfire Songs: The Popular, Obscure and Unknown Recordings, a two CD set compilation, with 31 digitally remastered songs, four of them demos and one unreleased.

Having been killed off in the last episode of the original series, at his request, Powell became a pin-up and a household name, following up with starring roles in several BBC serials, including television adaptations of the novels Sentimental Education ( 1970 ) and Jude the Obscure ( 1971 ).

The band débuted with the 1978 album Adolescent Sex and followed up with their second album, Obscure Alternatives, the same year.

Emma was also very disapproving of Jude the Obscure, in part because of the book's criticisms of religion, but also because she worried that the reading public would believe that the relationship between Jude and Sue directly paralleled her strained relationship with Hardy ( which, in a figurative sense, it did ).

The town features in Thomas Hardy's Wessex with the names Shaston and Palladour, of particular significance in Jude the Obscure.

Certain incidents, such as Fanny's pregnancy with an illegitimate child and Boldwood's sudden lapse into murderous violence, foreshadow events in Tess of the d ' Urbervilles, where ( as in Jude the Obscure ) the protagonist is plagued by relentless misfortunes, and dies young at the end.

But the murder in 1515 of his relative Hans von Hutten by Ulrich, duke of Württemberg, changed the whole course of his life ; satire, chief refuge of the weak, became Hutten's weapon ; with one hand he took his part in the famous Epistolæ Obscurorum Virorum ( The Letters of Obscure Men ), and with the other launched scathing letters, eloquent Ciceronian orations, or biting satires against the duke.

In 1978 Brian Eno produced a recording of Irma for Obscure Records directed by Gavin Bryars with a cast including Howard Skempton and Phillips himself.

Obscure daimyos whose loyalty was in question or religious establishments that possessed the capabilities to arm a rebellion were all purged in an operation that has parallels with the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

The term conation is no longer widely known — it is in " The 1, 000 Most Obscure Words in the English Language ," defined as " the area of one's active mentality that has to do with desire, volition, and striving ", but a closer look turns up several references to conation as the third faculty of the mind.

From the lonely life he led, and still more from the riddling nature of his philosophy and his contempt for humankind in general, he was called " The Obscure " and the " Weeping Philosopher ".

* Cet obscur objet du désir ( That Obscure Object of Desire, 1977 ) illuminates the practical self-deceptions required for buying love as marriage.

Obscure jazz standards began to show up on the sudden rush of established pop singers to cover jazz standards ( the obscure Billy Barnes ballad " Something Cool ," for instance, had a rise in popularity after Jones introduced it in concert to rock audiences on her debut tour ).

The song was listed on the album as " Arranged by Charles Obscure ", which was a humorous pseudonym for Page.

In 2003 a career retrospective, You're Just Too Obscure for Me, was released.

Earlier, in 1509, the monk Pfefferkorn had obtained permission from Maximilian I ( 1486 – 1519 ), the Holy Roman Emperor, to incinerate all copies of the Talmud ( Jewish law and Jewish ethics ) known to be in the Holy Roman Empire ; the Letters of Obscure Men satirized the Dominican monks ' arguments for burning “ un-Christian ” works.

She is also recognized for her work in Luis Buñuel's surrealist classic That Obscure Object of Desire ( 1977 ), and in the internationally successful film Too Beautiful For You ( 1989 ), for which she won the César Award for Best Actress.

A suave, international actor best known for his roles in the films of surrealist director Luis Buñuel ( Tristana, 1970 ; Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, 1972 ; That Obscure Object of Desire, 1977 ) and as a drug lord in The French Connection ( 1971 ), he appeared in more than 150 films over half a century.

Rey starred in Buñuel's Viridiana ( 1961 ), Tristana ( 1970 ), The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie ( Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie ) ( 1972 ) ( a surreal movie which received the 1972 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film ) and That Obscure Object of Desire ( 1977 ).

Another of the successes of Rey-Buñuel's tandem was That Obscure Object of Desire ( 1977 ), nominated for another Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

His admiration for the Greek philosopher Heraclitus deepened to such lengths that at one point Saarikoski adopted the philosopher's colloquial name " The Obscure ", " Hämärä " in Finnish, to his poetry.

Inconspicuous Consumption: An Obsessive Look at the Stuff We Take for Granted, from the Everyday to the Obscure.

The poem is quoted by Sue Bridehead in Thomas Hardy's 1895 novel, Jude the Obscure and also by Edward Ashburnham in Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier.

His piece " American Standard " was recorded and released on Obscure Records in 1975.

Obscure myths suggest that the precursors of the modern organizations of mages originally gathered in ancient Egypt.

Hardy's Wessex excluded Devon, Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire, but the city of Oxford, which he called " Christminster ", was visited as part of Wessex in Jude the Obscure.

Critically, it is considered a Bildungsroman – i. e., a novel of self-cultivation – and would be included in the same genre as Dickens's own Great Expectations ( 1861 ), Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure, Samuel Butler's The Way of All Flesh, H. G. Wells's Tono-Bungay, D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers, and James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

Richard Arman Gregory compared the novel to Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure.

* " Father Time " is a character in " Jude the Obscure ", a novel by Thomas Hardy.

Jude the Obscure, the last of Thomas Hardy's novels, began as a magazine serial and was first published in book form in 1895.

A two-part musical stage adaptation of " Jude the Obscure " by Ian Finley ( book ), Bruce Benedict ( music ), Jonathan Fitts ( music ), and Jerome Davis ( lyrics ), premiered at Burning Coal Theatre Company in Raleigh, NC in April 2012.

Additionally, " Jude the Obscure " was a long time pseudonymous contributor to the Northern Irish literary magazine The Honest Ulsterman.

Allmusic wrote about Believer's Sanity Obscure album: " Before 1990, the Christian heavy metal genre rarely strayed from generic riffing and poor lyrics.

" Matthew Daemon ", also created by Dick Siegel, was written and illustrated by Mike Collins and was a spin off from the " SOS Matthew Daemon ( Seeker of Obscure Supernaturals )" feature.

Wantage is the ' Alfredston ' of Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure.