All 4 Uses
continuity
in
The Crying of Lot 49
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- a Negro woman with an intricately-marbled scar along the baby-fat of one cheek who kept going through rituals of miscarriage each for a different reason, deliberately as others might the ritual of birth, dedicated not to continuity but to some kind of interregnum;†
Chpt 5continuity = consistency
- San Narciso at that moment lost (the loss pure, instant, spherical, the sound of a stainless orchestral chime held among the stars and struck lightly), gave up its residue of uniqueness for her; became a name again, was assumed back into the American continuity of crust and mantle.†
Chpt 6
- There was the true continuity, San Narciso had no boundaries.†
Chpt 6 *
- If San Narciso and the estate were really no different from any other town any other estate, then by that continuity she might have found The Tristero anywhere in her Republic, through any of a hundred lightly-concealed entranceways, a hundred alienations, if only she'd looked.†
Chpt 6
Definitions:
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(1)
(continuity) consistency or lacking interruption
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) For more specialized senses of continuity, see a comprehensive dictionary.