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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: two full-grown and very powerful males and brought them together in
a wide jar, in order to enjoy the sight of a combat to the death.
After walking round the arena several times, to try and avoid each
other, they were not slow in placing themselves in a warlike
attitude, as though at a given signal. I saw them, to my surprise,
take their distances and sit up solemnly on their hind-legs, so as
mutually to present the shield of their chests to each other.
After watching them face to face like that for two minutes, during
which they had doubtless provoked each other by glances that
escaped my own, I saw them fling themselves upon each other at the
same time, twisting their legs round each other and obstinately
The Life of the Spider |
