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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: stones, those of a fair size; search, above all, the piles which
the shepherds set up for a seat whence to watch the sheep browsing
amongst the lavender below. Do not be too easily disheartened:
the Clotho is rare; not every spot suits her. If fortune smile at
last upon our perseverance, we shall see, clinging to the lower
surface of the stone which we have lifted, an edifice of a weather-
beaten aspect, shaped like an over-turned cupola and about the size
of half a tangerine orange. The outside is encrusted or hung with
small shells, particles of earth and, especially, dried insects.
The edge of the cupola is scalloped into a dozen angular lobes, the
points of which spread and are fixed to the stone. In between
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