April 19, 2001

a collection of holes

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Melting snow has caused high water levels on Au Train Lake!  You can see the water lapping at the doorsteps of several cottages in the northeast corner of the lake.  This winter's heavy snowfall is not expected to raise the level of Lake Superior, which is expected to reach a 30 year low this summer.

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"You can define a net in one of two ways, depending on your point of view.  Normally, you would say that 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."

- From "Flaubert's Parrot" by Julian Barnes

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