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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: one that is all dilapidated, that was seriously knocked out of
shape at the time of removal, the Spider abandons it during the
night and instals herself elsewhere, sometimes even on the trellis-
work of the wire cage.
The new tent, the work of a few hours, attains hardly the diameter
of a two-franc piece. It is built, however, on the same principles
as the old manor-house and consists of two thin sheets laid one
above the other, the upper one flat and forming a tester, the lower
curved and pocket-shaped. The texture is extremely delicate: the
least trifle would deform it, to the detriment of the available
space, which is already much reduced and only just sufficient for
The Life of the Spider |
