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Literary notes about gossamer (AI summary)

In literature, "gossamer" is often used to evoke an image of delicacy and ethereal lightness, whether describing physical materials or abstract states of being. Writers employ it to suggest both the tangible fragility of fine fabrics and the ephemeral quality of dreams or emotions. For instance, a scene may portray a vessel that glides "light as gossamer" to underline its graceful, almost supernatural movement [1], or depict a sensation of waking from a fragile, dreamlike state [2]. Similarly, the term appears to capture fleeting moments in nature and human experience, as when twilight is rendered with a "gossamer dusk" shrouding a lone figure [3].
  1. In his stone coffin forth he rides, A ponderous barque for river tides, Yet light as gossamer it glides, Downward to Tilmouth cell.
    — from Marmion: A Tale Of Flodden Field by Walter Scott
  2. I staggered, as though harshly awakened from a gossamer dream.
    — from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
  3. He was coming, walking shadowily with the gossamer dusk, carrying his two sheaves.
    — from The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence

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