disjecta membra, n.

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'scattered fragments'; scattered or disjointed quotations.


“The poetic conducts an immediate conceptual synthesis of percepts. Brought into contact with these by its partial attachments to some individual human brain and body, it meets—through the senses—the disjecta membra of a real world, and weaves them again into the one real whole.”
—Owen Barfield, Poetic Diction
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