Literary notes about Merge (AI summary)
The term merge in literature serves as a multifaceted device, evoking both the tangible and the abstract. It is often used to describe the physical blending of elements—a process where colors, images, or even natural features lose their individual boundaries and become one, as when hues fade into a bed of clouds or lines soften against a backdrop [1, 2]. At the same time, merge enriches narratives by symbolizing the unification of ideas or identities, such as the fusion of wills to form a common purpose or the dissolution of strict categorical separations in human relationships and history [3, 4]. In this way, merge dynamically captures the continuous transformation where discrete entities combine to create something new and cohesive [5, 6].
- The colors fade and blend into each other, and finally merge into a bed of rosy clouds, flooded with the radiance of some unseen sun.
— from The Lands of the SaracenPictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain by Bayard Taylor - Note carefully where the light masses come sharply against the half tones and where they merge softly into them.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed - In a compact, therefore, two wills merge themselves in a common will, which as such becomes a right.
— from A History of Philosophy in Epitome by Albert Schwegler - Rome triumphed over Carthage, but the rivalry of Aryan and Semite was to merge itself later on in the conflict of Gentile and Jew.
— from A Short History of the World by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - The various brain-regions merge into each other in the same mixed way.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James - I merge myself in the scene, in the perfect day.
— from Complete Prose Works by Walt Whitman
