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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: the same road which she has just taken.
The thread obtained on the way in a broken line, partly on the
radius and partly on the frame, is too long for the exact distance
between the circumference and the central point. On returning to
this point, the Spider adjusts her thread, stretches it to the
correct length, fixes it and collects what remains on the central
signpost. In the case of each radius laid, the surplus is treated
in the same fashion, so that the signpost continues to increase in
size. It was first a speck; it is now a little pellet, or even a
small cushion of a certain breadth.
We shall see presently what becomes of this cushion whereon the
The Life of the Spider |
