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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: these straps is the same number of spacious inverted arches. The
whole represents the Ishmaelite's camel-hair tent, but upside down.
A flat roof, stretched between the straps, closes the top of the
dwelling.
Then where is the entrance? All the arches of the edge open upon
the roof; not one leads to the interior. The eye seeks in vain;
there is nothing to point to a passage between the inside and the
outside. Yet the owner of the house must go out from time to time,
were it only in search of food; on returning from her expedition,
she must go in again. How does she make her exits and her
entrances? A straw will tell us the secret.
The Life of the Spider |
