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Literary notes about HIATUS (AI summary)

The word "hiatus" has been used in literature to indicate both a literal gap and a figurative interruption in the flow of ideas or narrative. In classical texts, for example, Diogenes Laertius refers to interruptions in argument or missing passages in manuscripts, emphasizing a break in the intended line of thought [1, 2, 3]. This usage is also evident in the narrative realm, where authors like Mark Twain and Gogol describe abrupt or prolonged breaks in treatment or original text [4, 5, 6, 7, 8]. Beyond these metaphorical and textual gaps, the term has been appropriated in technical contexts, as illustrated by L. M. Montgomery’s discussion of a physical opening in anatomical structure [9]. Even Rousseau and Hans Gross apply "hiatus" to denote gaps—whether in language or in observed events—demonstrating the term’s versatility in conveying interruption or discontinuity across diverse literary and scholarly genres [10, 11].
  1. [88] It would appear that there is a considerable hiatus here; for the instance following is a sorites, and not a specimen of the veiled argument.
    — from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius
  2. [92] There is a hiatus in the text here.
    — from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius
  3. Casaubon thinks with great probability that there is a hiatus in the text.
    — from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius
  4. [Here there occurs a hiatus in the original.
    — from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
  5. [At this point a long hiatus occurs in the original.
    — from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
  6. Then there was a hiatus.
    — from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner
  7. [At this point there occurs a long hiatus.
    — from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
  8. [At this point there is a long hiatus in the original.
    — from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
  9. Spina bifida is a congenital malformation or hiatus in union along the median line of the sacrum or loins.
    — from Anne of the Island by L. M. Montgomery
  10. If, however, the observer finds an inexplicable hiatus in an event he happens to notice, he finds it strange because unintelligible.
    — from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross
  11. Notice too the skilful way in which he avoids the hiatus in irai-je-y or y-irai-je?
    — from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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