In fact, Frank's story addresses exactly this dilemma: between artistic integrity (and obscurity) and commercial success.
From virtual obscurity, they are summoned from the backroom and thrown into a frontline role for which they have little preparation.
But every escape contains its own confinement, and the escape from obscurity to a global reputation has brought unwanted attention and preoccupying commitments to the business of bookselling.
But in another sense, she told her fellow physiotherapists, there was the prospect of it "sleepwalking into obscurity" and of allowing the profession to "wither and die".
And yet, while members of contemporary bands fell by the wayside - some into career obscurity, others into drug-hazed oblivion - Brown picked himself up, dusted himself down and, unbowed and self-possessed, confounded his critics.
Why risk fading into obscurity and beckoning forth the debt-collectors, when you can go out with a stylish bang and break up your practice instead, boy-band style?
This in turn was to extend the life of three seams: the Blairhall Main, the Lochgelly Splint and the Jersey, names which have since passed into obscurity along with others – the Lochgelly Parrot, the Duddie Davie – that have their toponymic roots in the mining cultures of the Forth.
James Lyne, global head of security research at Sophos, said that some systems have relied on security through obscurity.
artmod, posted online Obviously that's hugely flattering and you'd like to think it was the case, but they've lived their whole lives to develop a dedicated aesthetic of total improvisation while being utterly ignored by society and living on the fringes of humanity and in utter poverty, and then dying in obscurity and never being recognised for their art.
Here his relative obscurity enabled him to personify anonymity; practically unknown on screen, he could also be frighteningly invisible on the streets.
Picasso's relative obscurity is all the more surprising given that his story, and that of his family, was made public in a 1999 documentary, "Los Picassos Negros" ("The Black Picassos").
