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.

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.

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

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.

* Jude the Obscure ( 1971 ), directed by Hugh David, and starring Robert Powell and Fiona Walker

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.

" 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.

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.

* Jude the Obscure, a novel by Thomas Hardy

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

The Rise of Christianity, ( subtitled either " A sociologist reconsiders history " or " How the Obscure, Marginal Jesus Movement Became the Dominant Religious Force in the Western World in a Few Centuries ," depending on the edition ) is a book by the sociologist Rodney Stark, which examines the rise of Christianity from a small movement in Galilee and Judea at the time of Jesus, to the majority religion of the Roman Empire a few centuries later.

Castelluccio ’ s recent film projects include the biographical El Cantante starring Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez, Aftermath, a crime-thriller starring Michael Anthony Hall, Chris Penn and directed and written by Thomas Farone, The Obscure Brother, filmed in southern Italy, a short film that Federico executive produced and acted in.

# Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

" Peering into the Obscure " ( 6, 覽冥訓 ) describes Fuxi and Nüwa being transported by yinglong 應龍 and qingqiu 青虯 " green qiu-dragons ", while accompanied by baichi 白螭 " white chi-dragons " and benshe 奔蛇 " speeding snakes ".

The first album, Music From The Penguin Cafe, was released in 1976 on Brian Eno's experimental Obscure Records label, an offshoot of the EG label ; a collection of pieces recorded in the years 1974-1976, it was followed in 1981 by Penguin Cafe Orchestra, after which the band settled into a more regular release schedule.

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.

Obscure during his lifetime, he is now highly regarded by many musicians and critics.

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.

An early symphonic metal band was the thrash metal group Believer, whose song " Dies Irae " on their 1991 album Sanity Obscure foreshadowed the operatic approach used by the bands Therion and Nightwish.

Obscure Alternatives is the second album by English band Japan, released in October 1978, the follow-up to their debut album Adolescent Sex from seven months earlier.

That Obscure Object of Desire (; ) is a 1977 film directed by Luis Buñuel.

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 ).

* Christminster, a fictional town and university ( based on Oxford ) in Thomas Hardy's novel Jude the Obscure

While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life, and regarded himself primarily as a poet, his first collection was not published until 1898, so that initially he gained fame as the author of such novels as, Far from the Madding Crowd ( 1874 ), The Mayor of Casterbridge ( 1886 ), Tess of the d ' Urbervilles ( 1891 ), and Jude the Obscure ( 1895 ).

Thomas Hardy stopped writing fiction after Jude the Obscure ( 1895 ) was severely criticized, so that the major novelists writing in Britain at the start of the 20th century were an Irishman James Joyce ( 1882-1941 ) and two immigrants, American Henry James ( 1843-1916 ) and Pole Joseph Conrad ( 1857-1924 ).

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.

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 ).

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.

* The Rue Obscure or “ Dark Street ” is a passage way under the harbour front houses which dates back to 1260.

In 1996 Winterbottom adapted his favourite novel, Thomas Hardy's bleak classic Jude the Obscure, the tale of forbidden love between two cousins which had so scandalized British society on its release in 1895 that Hardy gave up novel-writing.

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 ).

:' THERE is not any Speculation, which affords a more agreeable Pleasure to the Mind, than that of beholding from what Obscure and Mean Beginnings, the most Polite and Entertaining Arts have |< j / ij > risen to be the Admiration and Delight of Mankind.

The Epistolæ Obscurorum Virorum ( English: Letters of Obscure Men ) was a celebrated collection of satirical Latin letters which appeared 1515-1519 in Hagenau, Germany.

Roll Call once jokingly named him Chair of the Obscure Caucus.

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 ).

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.

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.

Obscure but innocent words like posset ( a medieval drink made with curdled milk ) became cues for instant giggling, especially among adolescents in school.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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