Both Uses
persistence
in
The Martian Chronicles
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- Hallucinations with time and spatial persistence!†
Chpt 4 *
- Here and there, with stubborn persistence to custom, there had been voices singing, the honey laughter under the mimosa branches, the pickaninnies rushing in clear water laughter at the creek, movements and bendings in the fields, jokes and shouts of amusement from the shingle shacks covered with fresh green vine.†
Chpt 15
Definitions:
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(1)
(persistence) continuing or repeating behavior -- especially in spite of difficulties
or:
continuing or prolonged existence of something - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)