Literary notes about closure (AI summary)
The term "closure" carries a rich variety of connotations in literature, shifting seamlessly between literal and metaphorical domains. It is depicted as a physical act—such as the sealing of a wound [1], the conjoining of anatomical structures [2, 3], or the proper shutdown of a mechanism [4]—and as a metaphor for the culmination of narrative or emotional arcs, as when a debate or quarrel is definitively ended [5, 6, 7]. At times, it even enters the realm of the economic or procedural, denoting the finality of a trade practice or institution [8, 9]. In other contexts, the closure of the eyes or lips is employed to symbolize personal resolve or the transition from wakefulness to sleep [10, 11]. Such multifaceted usage underscores how "closure" functions as both a concrete and abstract device, enriching the texture of literary discourse.
- The closure of the wound causes an increase in the number of epithelial rows over the defect.
— from The Organism as a Whole, from a Physicochemical Viewpoint by Jacques Loeb - The subsequent development consists mainly in the closure of the blastopore, and an increase in the number of the epiblast cells.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 2 (of 4) A Treatise on Comparative Embryology: Invertebrata by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour - It was called the primitive groove by the early embryologists, and they supposed that the neural canal arose from the closure of its edges above.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1 (of 4) Separate Memoirs by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour - The former type is fired either by closing an electric circuit in a station on shore, or by the ship herself in contact, or in electric closure.
— from Triumphs and Wonders of the 19th Century: The True Mirror of a Phenomenal Era A volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress by James P. (James Penny) Boyd - So Nana repeated the phrase by way of closure to all their quarrels.
— from Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Émile Zola - We, on the contrary, shall at the closure and end of this treatment reckon up our number.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais - Howsoever, I excuse him, for that I believe he is now drawing near to the end and final closure of his life.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais - The closure of the port of Boston in 1773, and the quartering of troops in the town, filled up the measure of discontent.
— from The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 3 (of 7) by Arthur Thomas Malkin - Since 1990, Greenland has registered a foreign trade deficit following the closure of the last remaining lead and zinc mine in 1990.
— from The 2000 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency - "Some adults go to sleep just as readily by simple closure of the eyes.
— from The Law of Psychic Phenomena A working hypothesis for the systematic study of hypnotism, spiritism, mental therapeutics, etc. by Thomson Jay Hudson - firm closure of the mouth tends to give an expression of determination or decision to the countenance.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin
