All 3 Uses of
detach
in
As I Lay Dying
- He is looking down at her peaceful, rigid face fading into the dusk as though darkness were a precursor of the ultimate earth, until at last the face seems to float detached upon it, lightly as the reflection of a dead leaf.†
Chpt 12
- It is as though the dark were resolving him out of his integrity, into an unrelated scattering of components--snuffings and stampings; smells of cooling flesh and ammoniac hair; an illusion of a co-ordinated whole of splotched hide and strong bones within which, detached and secret and familiar, an is different from my is.†
Chpt 13
- When we speak our voices are quiet, detached.
Chpt 34 *detached = emotionally uninvolved (separated from ourselves)
Definition:
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(detach) to separate something from something else (physically or emotionally)