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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: maker's and fuller's work. How does the Spider direct an
establishment of this kind? How does she obtain, at will, skeins
of diverse hues and grades? How does she turn them out, first in
this fashion, then in that? I see the results, but I do not
understand the machinery and still less the process. It beats me
altogether.
The Spider also sometimes loses her head in her difficult trade,
when some trouble disturbs the peace of her nocturnal labours. I
do not provoke this trouble myself, for I am not present at those
unseasonable hours. It is simply due to the conditions prevailing
in my menagerie.
The Life of the Spider |
