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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: with, all picked up in their immediate neighbourhood, my Lycosae
have built themselves donjon-keeps the like of which their race has
not yet known. Around the orifice, on a slightly sloping bank,
small, flat, smooth stones have been laid to form a broken, flagged
pavement. The larger stones, which are Cyclopean blocks compared
with the size of the animal that has shifted them, are employed as
abundantly as the others.
On this rockwork stands the donjon. It is an interlacing of raphia
and bits of wool, picked up at random, without distinction of
shade. Red and white, green and yellow are mixed without any
attempt at order. The Lycosa is indifferent to the joys of colour.
The Life of the Spider |
