Parody in interview form spoofs way-out writers and trends towards obscurity and obscenity in modern fiction.
Sixth in the league with a revamped squad, they are no longer hurtling towards obscurity but on the rise.
Crichton, by his own admission, was much enjoying the seductively gentle drift towards obscurity that had begun for him in the late Seventies.
By Philip Hamburger The New Yorker, July 29 , 1967P. 24 Parody in interview form spoofs way-out writers and trends towards obscurity and obscenity in modern fiction.
And anyone who didn't know what happened at Newmarket last weekend might take it as evidence of a continued slide towards obscurity that he came to this low-key meeting for two rides, which both finished second, and will be here again on Wednesday instead of at Chester's televised card.
Comic sales declined and Boswell crept towards obscurity, despite the adoration of some of the industry's most influential people.
These manic periods were followed by melancholy, and when the bottom dropped out of the poetry market after Byron's death in 1824, Clare's swift return to obscurity exacerbated his tendency towards depression.
If the intellectual laziness of this argument (what is Bolton if not a middle-level English club?) doesn't rouse neutrals, then what about this contribution from Wyness who re-emerged from his obscurity this week to make clear his antipathy towards Celtic and Rangers had not diminished with the passing of the years.
In recent years more attention has been paid to him, and much of his work has been reprinted, but aficionados must have found it hard to resist the selfish wish that he stay mostly forgotten: so many of his stories hinge on characters straying into, or being unwittingly drawn towards, mysterious spaces beyond everyday reality, that obscurity has suited him very well.
Its path from obscurity to ubiquity mirrors its unorthodox structure: the slow build towards the last-minute eruption.
