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]).
- 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 - 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 - 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 - Cast off the net, Thoma Menshov, and pick up that sturgeon for the gentleman to see.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol - At the same time he is weaving a net in which Thrasymachus is finally enclosed.
— from The Republic by Plato - 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 - 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 - 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 - HELP-NET (HELP-NET@TEMPLEVM) BITNET/CREN/INTERNET Help Resource.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno - The future multilingualism of the Net will be determined by market forces.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert - "Last year, I stole the standardized tests and published them on the net.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow