Pseudonymity: As described above, there is a value incertain situations to be known by your words and actions and self-created representation of an alternate self.

Perhaps, therefore, Selden is wisest when he says, “hides were of an incertain quantity.”

Led by the loadstar of her heav'nly looks,     Wends poor oppressed Balthazar,     As o'er the mountains walks the wanderer     Incertain to effect his pilgrimage.