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  1. Also known as Vibrating or Cellar Spiders, members of the Pholcidae family live in houses and buildings. They make their untidy webs in the corner of a wall or a ceiling. They are also often found in the basement or cellar, thus being referred to by another common name as cellar spiders. When they are disturbed or when they are under a threat of attack, they start vibrating in their web violently to scare off and discourage their enemy.

    Sort of like Chavez, Amanie, the Islamic Jihad, etc.

  2. I love Ymarsaker’s comparison. The world of animal behavior is an endlessly rewarding source of figures of speech to illuminate the human condition. Thanks again, neo, for the lovely mention. I am currently enjoying a Neoneolanche at my blog.

  3. Entomologist, etymologist…I keep getting those two mixed up.

    OK, not really, but like Willie Shakespeare said: “What’s in a name?”

  4. “What’s in a name?”

    The truth of who wrote Shakespeare’s works of course. Or did he think that it wouldn’t matter to us? ; )

  5. The last line of Design always reminds me of his other poems.

    The plight of the “small” vs. the “big” is a Frostian paradox that has its roots in questioning about our own place. See New Hampshire, look carefully in An Empty Threat, or in I Will Sing You One-O. But the finest example is where Frost puts his vast humor and wordsmithing together superbly in A Considerable Speck (Microscopic).

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