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Literary notes about interchange (AI summary)

The term “interchange” manifests in literature as a versatile metaphor for varied forms of mutual exchange. It can capture the instantaneous swapping of ideas or onto the silent trade of glances and sentiments, as when characters exchange a few well-chosen words that hint at hidden depths ([1],[2]). In other instances, it illustrates the fluidity of time and space—a shifting dance of concepts where place and era seem to trade roles seamlessly ([3]). At times, it even encapsulates the philosophical or emotional reciprocity essential to personal identity and relationships, as seen in accounts where profound, almost alchemical exchanges of sympathy and thought occur ([4],[5]). In each usage the word not only denotes a simple act of giving and receiving but also the transformative potential imbued within every subtle or overt communication.
  1. Mr. Krook and he interchange a word or two.
    — from Bleak House by Charles Dickens
  2. Lydgate noticed a peculiar interchange of glances when he and Bulstrode took their seats.
    — from Middlemarch by George Eliot
  3. The ideas of place and time readily interchange; so, in loco
    — from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce
  4. He continued— “You must create a female for me, with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being.
    — from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  5. It is more possible for the sun and moon to interchange their positions than for you to die of tuberculosis."
    — from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

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