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Literary notes about NET (AI summary)

In literature, “net” is a versatile term that operates both literally and metaphorically. In adventure and fable narratives, it often appears as a physical tool for capture—a fisherman’s implement for ensnaring fish or an artifact used to trap foes or mythical creatures ([1], [2], [3], [4]). Authors also harness the image of the net to convey ideas of entanglement or constraint, whether depicting a philosophical dilemma, the binding effects of fate, or the complex results of social and political forces ([5], [6], [7], [8]). In more contemporary texts, the word extends into modern realms, symbolizing digital networks or encapsulating outcomes in abstract discussions on connectivity and effect ([9], [10], [11]).
  1. With his last breath he said to himself, “I am rightly served; for what business had I who had never handled a net to try and catch fish?” H2 anchor
    — from Aesop's Fables by Aesop
  2. H2 anchor Chapter 3 The engineer, the meshes of the net having given way, had been carried off by a wave.
    — from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
  3. And Simon answering said to him: Master, we have laboured all the night and have taken nothing: but at thy word I will let down the net.
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  4. Cast off the net, Thoma Menshov, and pick up that sturgeon for the gentleman to see.
    — from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
  5. At the same time he is weaving a net in which Thrasymachus is finally enclosed.
    — from The Republic by Plato
  6. And I have found a woman more bitter than death, who is the hunter's snare, and her heart is a net, and her hands are bands.
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  7. But never, he had really found this self, because he had wanted to capture it in the net of thought.
    — from Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
  8. Let him be caught in the net of his own eyes in my regard, and do thou strike him by the graces of the words of my lips. 9:14.
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  9. HELP-NET (HELP-NET@TEMPLEVM) BITNET/CREN/INTERNET Help Resource.
    — from The Online World by Odd De Presno
  10. The future multilingualism of the Net will be determined by market forces.
    — from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert
  11. "Last year, I stole the standardized tests and published them on the net.
    — from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

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