Literary notes about Stable (AI summary)
The term "stable" in literature is remarkably versatile, functioning both as a literal space and as a metaphor for constancy. In many narratives, it designates a physical place where horses are kept, evoking vivid rural imagery and everyday life—as seen when a character works beside or enters the stable in narratives like [1], [2], [3], and [4]. In other texts, authors extend the meaning to describe an enduring quality or equilibrium, using the term to comment on the unchanging nature of ideas or systems, as in reflections on human faculties or government structure found in [5], [6], and [7]. Additionally, the word oscillates between tangible and abstract uses, seamlessly linking pastoral settings with broader philosophical meditations on order and reliability, as illustrated by its symbolic employment in discussions of artistic success and societal constructs in [8] and [9].
- Uriah, having taken the pony to a neighbouring stable, was at work at a desk in this room, which had a brass frame on the top to
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens - “Because it is my nearest way from the stable-yard to my own chamber; and why should I not come up it?”
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen - The horse had left [ 166 ] the stable and the door was open, as we saw in the preceding chapter.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. Blount - My wife and daughters are obliged to sleep in a little chamber over the stable, to give our guests more room.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie - And if it proves human nature to be unstable, it can build that proof on nothing more stable than human faculty as at the moment it happens to be.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana - “It’s a period of confusion when there is no stable government.
— from The Lani People by Jesse F. Bone - If the equilibrium of man's being were stable he would need neither nutrition, reproduction, nor sense.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana - CHAPTER III EMERGENCE OF FINE ART Art is spontaneous action made stable by success.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana - “OVER the stream all is stable, all the values of things, the bridges and bearings, all ‘good’ and ‘evil’: these are all STABLE!”
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
