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Literary notes about agog (AI summary)

The word "agog" often appears in literature to convey a vivid sense of eager anticipation and heightened curiosity. In James Joyce's Ulysses, it succinctly encapsulates emotions as characters or situations are described as "all agog" ([1], [2]), while Carlyle uses the term to underline the explosive mix of emotions brought on by controversial events, noting that "the February swearing has set them all agog" ([3]). Authors like Guy de Maupassant similarly evoke a picture of collective interest, with country folk coming "agog with curiosity" ([4]), and in Fyodor Dostoyevsky, the entire town is portrayed as abuzz with excitement ("all the town is agog with it" [5]). Even in Giovanni Boccaccio's narrative, it serves to indicate a palpable excitement as a character becomes "all agog to see the show" ([6]).
  1. MRS BREEN: (All agog.)
    — from Ulysses by James Joyce
  2. When all agog miss Douce said eagerly: —Look at the fellow in the tall silk.
    — from Ulysses by James Joyce
  3. And now, especially, when the February swearing has set them all agog!
    — from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle
  4. The country people who knew the story came, agog with curiosity, to ask news of Toine.
    — from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant
  5. … It’s all the work of Fedka the convict, and some Shpigulin men, all the town is agog with it.
    — from The possessed : by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  6. 'Let not that hinder you,' quoth Martellino, who was all agog to see the show; 'I warrant you I will find a means of winning to the holy body.'
    — from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

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