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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: evergreen oak, on the slopes with the scrubby greenswards, dear to
the Grasshoppers.
Her hunting-weapon is a large upright web, whose outer boundary,
which varies according to the disposition of the ground, is
fastened to the neighbouring branches by a number of moorings. The
structure is that adopted by the other weaving Spiders. Straight
threads radiate at equal intervals from a central point. Over this
framework runs a continuous spiral thread, forming chords, or
crossbars, from the centre to the circumference. It is
magnificently large and magnificently symmetrical.
In the lower part of the web, starting from the centre, a wide
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