"Inside the Living Body" spends its two hours tracing the life of a nameless, personality-free everywoman, played by a series of increasingly older performers, from birth to near death, using cameras, scans and animation to show us what would be going on inside her body at various ages.
It's addressed to a nameless person".
"We're not just this nameless, faceless person anymore.
There are sly homages to both writers in the book: a videotape that Schwartz watches to restore "some nameless element of his personality that threatened to slip away" recalls the film cartridge in "Infinite Jest"; where a character in "Freedom" fumbles through a bowel movement for a ring, one here fishes through her vomit for an earring.
A gridlike arrangement of 21 photographs with the descriptive title "Afghan Children Born in Exile" is a reminder that life and the life cycle go on, and that people who so often make up nameless statistics are particular personalities.
The island exerts its elemental pull on Atwood's nameless heroine, shredding the layers of her personality as she descends into madness - or mysticism.
Murray himself rises to the challenge of the personality change following Albert's night of nameless debauchery with aplomb.
These women were nameless and faceless objects of male desire; they had no personality.
Personality and psychometric testing, blind auditions, webcam interviews and nameless CVs are on the rise, but in a face-to-face environment, anything from gender, race, clothing, education and accent can provide an unwitting platform for discrimination.
They are seen through the experience of different personalities, such as the apostle Paul or the nameless composers traditionally identified as Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John of documents that came to be edited as the Gospels.
