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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: there. There are many of them; we can choose where we please. Let
us stop in front of this one, whom we surprise in the act of laying
the foundations of the structure. Without any appreciable order,
she runs about the rosemary-hedge, from the tip of one branch to
another within the limits of some eighteen inches. Gradually, she
puts a thread in position, drawing it from her wire-mill with the
combs attached to her hind-legs. This preparatory work presents no
appearance of a concerted plan. The Spider comes and goes
impetuously, as though at random; she goes up, comes down, goes up
again, dives down again and each time strengthens the points of
contact with intricate moorings distributed here and there. The
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