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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: outside, taking care not to soil the spotless sanctuary with
corpses.
The structure of the nest is not without a certain similarity to
that of the home occupied during the hunting-season. The passage
at the back represents the funnel-neck, that ran almost down to the
ground and afforded an outlet for flight in case of grave danger.
The one in front, expanding into a mouth kept wide open by cords
stretched backwards and forwards, recalls the yawning gulf into
which the victims used to fall. Every part of the old dwelling is
repeated: even the labyrinth, though this, it is true, is on a
much smaller scale. In front of the bell-shaped mouth is a tangle
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