Eventually the music became a web of fractured phrases, riffs and harmonies.
Books, including fiction, will become a web of names and a community of ideas.
Then his face can become a web of creases as he listens to his friends' voices on the radio.
Six years later, those degrees of separation have become a web of fellow travellers recontextualising American folk music.
But the push could stall on Capitol Hill, which has become a web of recriminations, threats and pressure tactics.
The slow Rondeaux of the Bach partita became a web of lulling sameness, and Brahms's young ardor was conveyed in a sometimes careless shower of notes.
But Gavin Long's life also became a web of paranoid ideas, a professed allegiance to an antigovernment "sovereign citizen" group and a belief that bloodshed was a better tool than peaceful protest in the fight against oppression.
Since then, Fred has become a Web phenomenon, with some of Mr. Cruikshank's YouTube videos generating more than 10 million hits.
Intimate and rich personal data combined with AI means that it becomes predictive: a web of apps accessed via IM, Google Now, Siri or Alexa, predicting our needs and informing our wants.
"But from there, the epidemiological investigation becomes a tangled web of different possibilities," he said, that include Canada, Washington or other states.
