Julian Barnes
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You can define a net two ways, depending on your point of view. Normally you would say it is a meshed instrument designed to catch fish. But you could, with no great injury to logic, reverse the image and define the net as a jocular lexicographer once did: he called it a collection of holes tied together with string. ✨ Julian Barnes (1985). Flaubert's parrot, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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