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In literature, the term fissure is employed not only to depict physical cracks and openings in the earth but also to symbolize divisions, transitions, and hidden pathways. In vivid geological landscapes, fissures are described as routes through which lava, steam, or water emerges, establishing a tangible connection between nature’s forces and the narrative’s unfolding events ([1],[2],[3]). At times, characters venture into fissures, whether to discover concealed caves or to follow enigmatic leads into the unknown ([4],[5],[6]). The word also lends a more metaphorical resonance by suggesting a split or rupture within a broader system, evoking emotional or societal chasms as profound as those found in nature ([7],[8]).
  1. Eruptions on parallel lines of fissure within the same geological period.
    — from Volcanic Islands by Charles Darwin
  2. The passage was a fissure of this kind, through which, ages ago, had flowed the eruptive granite.
    — from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
  3. It is scarcely necessary to say that in this curiously shaped fissure the Hansbach had become a cascade to the detriment of its size.
    — from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
  4. Back through the fissure and over the low ground behind the shore ridge, they made their way cautiously, silently.
    — from The Secret Cache: An Adventure and Mystery Story for Boys by Ethel C. (Ethel Claire) Brill
  5. I gazed wildly around, and at last discovered a fissure in the rock, to which I rushed in the hope of recovering my scattered senses.
    — from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
  6. When the chain was all paid out, the candle confirmed my suspicion; a considerable section of the wall was gone, exposing a good big fissure.
    — from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
  7. Beneath my head the others are dragged down Who have preceded me in simony, Flattened along the fissure of the rock.
    — from Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell by Dante Alighieri
  8. Save what is gold, doth every part display A fissure dripping tears; these, gathering all Together, through the grotto pierce a way.
    — from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

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