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Their computer models, designed to accommodate the complexity of a reality that is far messier than a tide table, produced the prediction of the sparrow’s dire future.

Be sure to check the tide table first.

Those who do not want to wade through ankle- or knee-deep water consult the tide table before heading into town.

This Old Man of the Sea was a crack hand with a sextant, a nautical almanac, and a tide table to be sure, but what he really taught me was the way in which all the world’s oceans are at once connected—obvious enough given the continuous flow of water around the continents—but also separate.

He had coasted along for years now, filling the pages of his newspaper with words, burying himself in whatever was safe, typesetting the ferry schedule and the tide table and the classified advertisements.