Literary notes about resource (AI summary)
The term “resource” in literature is used with remarkable versatility, often depicting both a tangible supply and an abstract means of survival or ingenuity. In many narratives, it signifies the last, sometimes desperate, recourse a character assumes when all other methods fail—as seen when hunting or flight becomes the only option to evade danger ([1], [2], [3]). At other times, resource implies a strategic asset, whether financial, physical, or intellectual, that underpins a character’s capacity for resilience or creative problem-solving ([4], [5], [6]). The word is equally at home in adventure and historical writings as in political or economic discussions, underscoring its capacity to capture both literal supplies and the more ephemeral strengths necessary for overcoming formidable challenges ([7], [8], [9]).
- His only resource was in hunting, and in so planning out his day that he should have no time left wherein to think of women.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova - “We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when you call to-morrow.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle - However, seeing no other resource, I was obliged to make up my mind to it.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. Lewis - Your money is the only resource left to me.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - She has the true language-impulse, and shows great fertility of resource in making the words at her command convey her meaning.
— from The Story of My Life by Helen Keller - Experiment is the chief resource in scientific reasoning because it facilitates the picking out of significant elements in a gross, vague whole.
— from How We Think by John Dewey - The next resource of Mahomet was the practice of mines; but the soil was rocky; in every attempt he was stopped and undermined by the Christian eng
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - The facility with which a great revenue could be drawn from them, would probably encourage administration to recur very frequently te this resource.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith - There may exist certain critical and tempestuous conjunctures of the State, in which a poll tax may become an inestimable resource.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton and John Jay and James Madison
