1983, Baruch Hochman, The test of character: from the Victorian novel to the modern:
...the palpable thereness of Woolf's characters is generated by her dramatization of their own sense of their evanescence, their imminent not-thereness.
2001, Rod Mengham, N. H. Reeve, The fiction of the 1940s: stories of survival:
In Bowen's work, thereness is uncomfortably close to not-thereness, being to non-being, presence to 'no-presence' (Friends, pp. 33, 91).
2002, Michael Lowenthal, Avoidance:
The comatose feel of Max, the pendulous not-thereness as he leaned onto me, now returned. "How did I screw up so bad?" I said.
