A writer's real enemy is obscurity, and he had been there, sitting behind huge piles of books in shopping malls waiting for people to come only for them to ask where the cookery books were.
And yet, though the years of obscurity were real, and the pain he suffered was true, it could also be said that Yoram was drawn to defeat.
It rocketed the 29-year-old singer, real name Amelia Warner, from obscurity to a peak of 31 in the UK Singles Charts and elicited 3 million YouTube hits.
The rise of individualism and the post-Enlightenment notion of genius pointed the way to obscurity, but the real reason for its exile, she explains, has to do with the idea of intellectual copyright.
Perhaps the real reason for Green's eventual obscurity is the fact that he was a white dramatist who portrayed black rural life and wrote in dialects difficult to decipher on the printed page.
The Bee Gees' brand of soulful ballads was no longer in fashion and there was a real danger they would fade into obscurity.
We've all heard the expression, "It's a real Cinderella story;" being plucked from obscurity and all of your dreams coming true... that narrative has mainly been attributed to Caucasian characters in the past.
Using NFC by phone and combining it with any form of tokenisation to generate a one-time "token" rather than exposing the real card number adds another layer of obscurity that thieves have to hack through, he said.
Mr. Luzhkov's wife, a real estate developer named Yelena Baturina, rose from obscurity to become Russia's richest woman.
But, because of the combination of her obscurity and importance, the mother qua Real Other also is a source of deeply unsettling anxiety for the very young child.
