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Literary notes about Connect (AI summary)

The term “connect” in literature serves as a multifaceted tool, bridging concrete objects, abstract ideas, and human experiences. In technical contexts, it denotes a straightforward physical joining, such as linking modem cables or network systems ([1], [2]). In narrative prose, however, the word takes on a richer meaning: it unites emotions with memories ([3]), allies disparate historical events or social customs ([4]), and even binds a character’s identity to broader cultural or moral themes ([5]). This versatility is further evident when writers use “connect” to forge links between imagery and passion, thus imbuing their work with a layered significance that resonates on both a literal and metaphorical level ([6], [7]). In each usage, the term underlines the fundamental human impulse to find relationships, whether they are physical, emotional, or conceptual.
  1. If this doesn't help, connect the modem cable to the most probable jack.
    — from The Online World by Odd De Presno
  2. Connect modem and computer using the modem cable.
    — from The Online World by Odd De Presno
  3. As it was, it required but a slight effort of fancy to connect his emotion with the tender recollection of past regard.
    — from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
  4. We have inherited many customs and institutions from our Saxon forefathers, which connect our own age with theirs.
    — from English Villages by P. H. Ditchfield
  5. "And was my father"—she spoke of him as if he were merely a strange name: she could never connect herself with him—"was he dark?"
    — from The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence
  6. In the one case the reader is utterly at the mercy of the poet respecting what imagery or diction he may choose to connect with the passion."
    — from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  7. Something constant, omnipresent, infinitely fertile is needed to support and connect the given chaos.
    — from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

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