Big Brother is watching you

The 1949 novel X is considered by many as a cult classic. Depicting a dystopian world where the world is in a perpetual state of war, it is notable for the eerily similar surveillance system that was exposed by Edward Snowden. Written in the early years of the Cold War, it was initially titled ‘The Last Man in Europe’, showing the cynicism of the general public regarding the political situation. Many famous terms like ‘Big Brother’ and ‘2+2=5’ originate from X. Name X.

A Generous King Indeed

The legend in ancient Siam, now Thailand, a king gave a X Y to someone whom he did not like. The albino Y was considered sacred and holy in ancient times. Keeping a X Y was a very expensive undertaking, since the owner had to provide the Y with special food and provide access for people who wanted to worship it. The recipient could not get rid of Y because it was a gift from the King. The gift would, in most cases, ruin the recipient.
A X Y sale is a sale in which you get rid of things have become a burden but are too valuable to just throw away. In the nineteenth century the phrase was used at church bazaars called “X Y sales” where donors could bring unwanted items. This term is still used today usually referring to an item that’s not useful (decorative) but may be expensive and odd.
Well, 'X Y' is what we need.

Funny Ser *Must've heard of him*

X of La Mancha, is a Spanish novel by Y. It follows the adventures of a nameless hidalgo who reads so many chivalric romances that he loses his sanity and decides to set out to revive chivalry, undo wrongs, and bring justice to the world, under the name X. He recruits a simple farmer, Sancho Panza, as his squire, who often employs a unique, earthy wit in dealing with X's rhetorical orations on antiquated knighthood. X, in the first part of the book, does not see the world for what it is, and prefers to imagine that he is living out a knightly story. The story implements various themes, such as intertextuality, realism, metatheatre, and literary representation. Published in two volumes, in 1605 and 1615, X is considered one of the most influential works of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon. Y said that the first chapters are taken from "The Archive of La Mancha" and the rest translated from the Arabic from the Moorish author Cid Hamet Ben Engeli. This metafictional trick appears to be designed to give a greater credibility to the text, by implying that X is a real character and that the story truly occurred several decades back. Yet it is obvious to the reader that such a thing is impossible, because the presence of Cide Hamete would have caused numerous temporal anomalies. It was a common method at the time because of the disapproval the novel genre was subject to.
Give us 'X' & 'Y'.

The name's Bond, Vagabond

In Life on the Mississippi (1883), X provides an account of his pseudonym, which he claims he took from the senior riverboat captain Isaiah Sellers. X describes Sellers as “a fine man, a high-minded man, and greatly respected both ashore and on the river,” but he highlights the needling pedantry Sellers showed in his observations of the Mississippi:

"The old gentleman was not of literary turn or capacity, but he used to jot down brief paragraphs of plain practical information about the river, and sign them “X,” and give them to the “New Orleans Picayune.” They related to the stage and condition of the river, and were accurate and valuable; and thus far, they contained no poison. But in speaking of the stage of the river to-day, at a given point, the captain was pretty apt to drop in a little remark about this being the first time he had seen the water so high or so low at that particular point for forty-nine years; and now and then he would mention Island so and so, and follow it, in parentheses, with some such observation as “disappeared in 1807, if I remember rightly.” In these antique interjections lay poison and bitterness for the other old pilots, and they used to chaff the “X” paragraphs with unsparing mockery

Id X.

...Requires he should be more confined, and none,
Nor not the princess ; suffered or to ask
Or speak with him.
Till you talk to the king.
Vile and ingrate I too late thou shalt repent,
 The base injustice thou hast done my love
Yes, thou shalt know, spite of thy past distress,
And all those ills which thou so long hast mourned;
Heaven hath no rage like love to hatred turned,
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FITB.

The things you own end up owning you.

• When X attempted to publish his novel publishers rejected it for its disturbing content. This led him to work on his most famous novel, Y, which he wrote as an attempt to disturb the publisher even more for rejecting him.
• Writing in his spare time while working for Freightliner, Y was  initially published as a short story in the 1995 & was later expanded it into a full novel which—contrary to his expectations—the publisher was willing to publish
•  Y was later adapted into a film which was a box office disappointment and the critical reaction was mixed, but a cult following soon emerged as the DVD of the film became popular upon release.
• X later commented that Y ,the movie, was so good that he was “ sorta embarrassed by the book.”

The Gentleman's club

In the Indian subcontinent, the term X is used to refer to a place of exercising or a sports club. During the British Raj, X clubs was the term used for Gentlemen’s clubs.

In English speaking countries, X is an Equestrian event. The novel “The mystery of the Invisible Thief” by Enid Blyton starts at one such event.

It is also used as the name for a timed automotive event.

ID X.

Did You Miss Me

In 1898, Edward William Barton-Wright, a British engineer who had spent the previous three years living in the Empire of Japan, returned to England and announced the formation of a "New Art of Self Defence". This art, he claimed, combined the best elements of a range of fighting styles into a unified whole, which he had named X.
 

Barton-Wright summarised the essential principles of X as:

• To disturb the equilibrium of your assailant.
• To surprise him before he has time to regain his balance and use his strength.
• If necessary, to subject the joints of any parts of his body, whether neck, shoulder, elbow, wrist, back, knee, ankle, etc. to strains that they are anatomically and mechanically unable to resist.

What is X and where has it been immortalized? 

Absolut-ly shocked.

Absolut tribute to?