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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: its presence, I use a straw rather than my eyes. The movement of
the web, when this part is touched, proves the presence of an
obstacle.
Here, the matter would appear obvious. The House Spider has mended
her work during the night; she has put a patch in the torn stuff, a
talent unknown to the Garden Spiders. It would be greatly to her
credit, if a mere attentive study did not lead to another
conclusion.
The web of the House Spider is, as we were saying, a platform for
watching and exploring; it is also a sheet into which the insects
caught in the overhead rigging fall. This surface, a domain
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