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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: middle of August. A scaffolding is first run up, at the top of the
dome; it consists of a few stretched threads. The wire trellis
represents the twigs and the blades of grass which the Spider, if
at liberty, would have used as suspension-points. The loom works
on this shaky support. The Epeira does not see what she is doing;
she turns her back on her task. The machinery is so well put
together that the whole thing goes automatically.
The tip of the abdomen sways, a little to the right, a little to
the left, rises and falls, while the Spider moves slowly round and
round. The thread paid out is single. The hind-legs draw it out
and place it in position on that which is already done. Thus is
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