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The term "disconnected" in literature serves as a flexible tool for conveying fragmentation—whether in thought, narrative, or physical separation. It is applied to describe broken or isolated sketches and ideas that only gain meaning when their disparate parts are temporarily united, as seen in historical commentaries on document drafts [1] and psychological analyses where a world’s parts emerge through pulses of consciousness [2, 3]. In dialogues and internal monologues, disjointed sentences and fragmented speech reflect characters’ inner turmoil or erratic thought processes [4, 5, 6, 7, 8]. Meanwhile, technical descriptions employ the term to denote literal separations of systems or structures, emphasizing how elements can be isolated or even deliberately severed [9, 10]. Through these varied usages, "disconnected" encapsulates both the abstract experience of isolation and the concrete reality of parts set apart, underscoring the rich complexity of literary expression.
  1. The sketches made between 1891 and 1893 were too disconnected to be of much use, but, in point
    — from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson
  2. Even a really disconnected world could only be known to be such by having its parts temporarily united in the Object of some pulse of consciousness.
    — from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James
  3. The multiple energies, singly exerted on no common recipient, would lose themselves on entirely isolated and disconnected efforts."
    — from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James
  4. On reading this short and disconnected note, Aglaya suddenly blushed all over, and became very thoughtful.
    — from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  5. He did not speak, but listened to her excited, disconnected chatter, hardly understanding a word of it the while.
    — from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  6. I tell you beforehand, so that you may be ready in case I—” Muttering these disconnected words, Rogojin began to make up the beds.
    — from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  7. It was a wordy, disconnected, frantic letter, a drunken letter in fact.
    — from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  8. It was very disconnected; the prince frowned, and wished he could get away; but suddenly a few words struck him.
    — from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  9. Some systems will continue to charge for a period, even after you have disconnected by hanging up.
    — from The Online World by Odd De Presno
  10. When disconnected, I pressed the F1 key.
    — from The Online World by Odd De Presno

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