Literary notes about remote (AI summary)
In literature, "remote" is employed in diverse ways to evoke separation, isolation, and an elusive distance that can be physical, temporal, or abstract. It often denotes a secluded locale or an atmosphere of detachment, as when vast, isolated landscapes or dispassionate events are rendered with a haunting quality ([1], [2], [3], [4]). At other times, the term stretches into the realm of time and memory, calling forth eras long past or the indistinct origins of traditions ([5], [6], [7], [8]). In modern contexts, its usage extends even to technical fields, where "remote" articulates the distance bridged by digital connections ([9], [10], [11]). Thus, whether describing a lonely turret or the farthest reaches of historical and conceptual thought, "remote" enriches the narrative with a layered sense of inaccessibility and mystery ([12], [13], [14]).
- And above all this, etched on the dark firmament, rose the Sierra, remote and passionless, crowned with remoter passionless stars.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales by Bret Harte - It lay in a remote turret of the building.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition by Edgar Allan Poe - He looked about him mournfully; the village scene seemed strange to him and somehow terribly remote.
— from The possessed : by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - He had wandered to this remote region from his birthplace in the interior of the State of New York, to seek his fortune.
— from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain - Now every tradition grows ever more venerable—the more remote is its origin, the more confused that origin is.
— from Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - There was no remote past on which his eye could rest, nor any future from which the veil was partly lifted up by the analogy of history.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato - The existence of these Courts probably goes back to a more remote period.
— from On Love by Stendhal - In the more remote ages of antiquity, the world was unequally divided.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - Downloading programs —————————— We call the transfer of programs and files from a remote computer for downloading.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno - Telnet gives access to a remote service for interactive dialog.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno - TCP/IP supports services such as remote login (telnet), file transfer (FTP), and mail (SMTP).
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno - I didn’t figure on the remote possibility that we might be genetically compatible.
— from The Lani People by Jesse F. Bone - A man almost always knows his forefathers, and respects them: he thinks he already sees his remote descendants, and he loves them.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville - Once more we talked of manual labour and progress, and the mysterious Cross awaiting humanity in the remote future.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
