Literary notes about lucid (AI summary)
The term lucid in literature is employed to convey a sense of clear, precise expression, whether the context is philosophical, descriptive, or narrative. At times it emphasizes the clarity of thought or argument—a writer’s lucid exposition can bring complex theories into understandable light [1, 2, 3]—and, in other instances, it illustrates the transparency of natural imagery, as with “lucid waters” or a sky rendered in vivid detail [4, 5, 6]. Equally, lucid is used to mark moments of mental clarity even amid tumult, as when a character experiences a lucid interval that sharply contrasts with surrounding disarray [7, 8, 9].
- I find whole passages in my works wrongly quoted, and it is only in my appendix, which is absolutely lucid, that an exception is made.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer - The treatment of the General Will in the Political Economy is brief and lucid, and furnishes the best guide to his meaning.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau - It may be said that the solution here proposed involves great difficulty in itself and is scarcely susceptible of a lucid exposition.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant - O, look again: beneath thee gleams Godávarí the best of streams, Whose lucid waters sweetly glide By lilies that adorn her side.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki - The great chief's body, with this turf heaped above it, bare earth covers under the lucid sky.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo - Before the mansion lay a lucid lake, Broad as transparent, deep, and freshly fed
— from Don Juan by Baron George Gordon Byron Byron - My mind had been perfectly lucid and had acted regularly and logically, so there was nothing the matter with the brain.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant - This again might be accounted for by saying that he is supposed to be in a lucid interval, as indeed his own language at 239 ff. implies.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. Bradley - A cold lucid indifference reigned in his soul.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
