Literary notes about Disconnection (AI summary)
The term "disconnection" functions on multiple levels in literature, serving as both a literal and metaphorical device. In technical and practical descriptions, it refers to the physical breaking or detachment of circuits, wires, or mechanical components—as when a spark is produced at a break in an electrical circuit ([1], [2], [3], [4], [5]). At the same time, authors and essayists deploy "disconnection" as a metaphor for emotional or intellectual separation, highlighting a rupture between a person’s inner life and the surrounding world, or the fragmentation between distinct eras or philosophies ([6], [7], [8], [9], [10]). In some contexts, it even underscores the act of deliberate or accidental isolation within social or political structures, conveying a broader sense of alienation or loss of continuity ([11], [12]). Thus, across varied genres and contexts, "disconnection" unifies concrete mechanical processes with abstract notions of separation, offering a richly layered image that resonates on both practical and symbolic levels.
- This flash is really a small electric arc, that forms as the circuit is broken and which burns away the switch at the point of disconnection.
— from Mechanics of the HouseholdA Course of Study Devoted to Domestic Machinery and Household Mechanical Appliances by E. S. (Edward Spencer) Keene - At the moment of disconnection what appears to be a small cloud of steam issues from the joint.
— from The Romance of Modern Invention Containing Interesting Descriptions in Non-technical Language of Wireless Telegraphy, Liquid Air, Modern Artillery, Submarines, Dirigible Torpedoes, Solar Motors, Airships, &c. &c. by Archibald Williams - The mechanism was simply the attachment and disconnection of an electro-magnet, in those days a far less familiar affair than now.
— from Fact and Fable in Psychology by Joseph Jastrow - Furthermore, a pin and washer admit of more speedy disconnection than a nut does, and also give a more delicate adjustment for end fit.
— from Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose - The reason for this is because of the flash that accompanies the break in the circuit when disconnection is made in the socket.
— from Mechanics of the HouseholdA Course of Study Devoted to Domestic Machinery and Household Mechanical Appliances by E. S. (Edward Spencer) Keene - The theory of absolute disconnection between the Old Stone Age and the Newer Stone Age long held the field, but it has disappeared before the evidence
— from The Story of the Alphabet by Edward Clodd - Thus, he felt the duress of loneliness making him slide deeper into disconnection as the stimulating and riveting air rushed through his hair.
— from An Apostate: Nawin of Thais by Steven David Justin Sills - What did her disconnection matter at all in the scheme of things, anyway?
— from Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America by Steven David Justin Sills - It would have perceived that such disconnection, such rupture of continuity, denied in advance the possibility of success in their endeavors.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey - A further disconnection of any significance would cause such an individual to let a numbness and deadening of the concept of self to take place.
— from Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America by Steven David Justin Sills - The effect of the SNAFU principle is a progressive disconnection of decision-makers from reality.
— from The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 - Viewing all objects 'in disconnection, dead and spiritless,' we are thus really waging An impious warfare with the very life Of our own souls.
— from Hours in a Library, Volume 2 New Edition, with Additions by Leslie Stephen
