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Literary notes about Web (AI summary)

The term “web” in literature is employed in a variety of ways, reflecting both its literal and metaphorical versatility. In some texts, “web” evokes the tangible, natural image of a spider’s creation—a delicate, entrapping structure that symbolizes fate, danger, or mystery, as seen in descriptions of a long, motionless spider-web hanging from a tree ([1], [2], [3]) or its metaphorical use to illustrate convoluted intrigue and entrapment ([4], [5]). In contrast, “web” also emerges as shorthand for the digital realm, referring to websites, online networks, or even the concept of a politically charged digital space ([6], [7], [8], [9], [10]). This dual usage underscores literature’s ability to intertwine classical natural imagery with modern technological contexts, reflecting the evolving nature of culture and communication.
  1. The sultry air was stagnant and motionless, and a long spider-web, stretching from the chestnut-tree to the ground, hung limply and did not stir.
    — from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
  2. I did not believe my eyes, and was entangled in conjectures like a fly in a spider’s web....
    — from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
  3. But the spider spins her web.
    — from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw
  4. why environ me in a web of intrigue so frightful that my spirit sinks under it, seeing escape is hopeless from your frightful, your diabolical art?
    — from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray
  5. She opened her eyes wide, and she heard the silence spinning its soft endless web.
    — from Bliss, and other stories by Katherine Mansfield
  6. oVosite est un site web (mise en ligne: juin 1997) conçu et
    — from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert
  7. = Quelles sont vos suggestions pour une meilleure accessibilité du web aux aveugles et malvoyants?
    — from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert
  8. En quoi consiste le site web?
    — from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert
  9. = What do you think of the debate about copyright on the Web?
    — from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert
  10. Comme vous l'avez sans doute lu (sur mon site, ndlr), je pense que "le web" est un concept politique, non technologique.
    — from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

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