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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: I describe what has happened. To-morrow, they will be in a less
hurry to go to bed: they will want to see everything, to the very
end. What delightful, simple evenings we have spent looking into
the Spider's workshop!
The journal of the Angular Epeira, written up day by day, teaches
us, first of all, how she obtains the ropes that form the frame-
work of the building. All day invisible, crouching amid the
cypress-leaves, the Spider, at about eight o'clock in the evening,
solemnly emerges from her retreat and makes for the top of a
branch. In this exalted position, she sits for some time laying
her plans with due regard to the locality; she consults the
The Life of the Spider |
