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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: wise from the others in appearance, if cleverly coaxed, opens at
the edge into two lips and stands slightly ajar. This is the door,
which at once shuts again of its own elasticity. Nor is this all:
the Spider, when she returns home, often bolts herself in, that is
to say, she joins and fastens the two leaves of the door with a
little silk.
The Mason Mygale is no safer in her burrow, with its lid
undistinguishable from the soil and moving on a hinge, than is the
Clotho in her tent, which is inviolable by any enemy ignorant of
the device. The Clotho, when in danger, runs quickly home; she
opens the chink with a touch of her claw, enters and disappears.
The Life of the Spider |
