He seemed to be a self-created wunderkind who baffled and beguiled those public school teachers smart enough to appreciate that his precocious creations were not copied from some brilliant but unfamiliar adult author.
He's also unfamiliar with author J.K. Huysmans, whose writings form a thematic foundation for Submission.
They, in turn, were no doubt unfamiliar with authors who met deadlines.
One was buying a used copy of the collected works of Oscar Wilde, and telling his young friend (who was unfamiliar with the author) who Wilde was and how important his work is.
Since 2008, IUCr journals have also allowed authors to publish such interactive visualizations as an integral part of their research articles, and have provided a toolkit to allow authors unfamiliar with Jmol to use many of its powerful features [16].
In the eight cases in which documentation was only available in a language unfamiliar for the authors (Austria, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Sweden), Google Translate™ (http://translate.google.com), an automatic translation application available on the Internet, was used.
Among most school administrators, the lingering cognitive symptoms of concussion and the requirements of a healing brain remain unfamiliar ground, the authors of the Pediatrics article write.
And for those unfamiliar with Mr. Wilson, the author of masterworks like "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" and "Joe Turner's Come and Gone," it offers a perfect introduction to a writer who never created a character who (to borrow an image from "Joe Turner") didn't have his own individual song to sing.
By estimating entropy, sophisticated compression programs can identify the language and even the author of unfamiliar prose.
