http://skirmisher.org/essential-cruelties/destroying-the-beautiful/ Mad. Filthy. Intriguing. Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:48:50 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://skirmisher.org/essential-cruelties/destroying-the-beautiful/comment-page-1/#comment-252024 The Skirmish of Dark and Light » Blog Archive » Creature Feature Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:14:13 +0000 http://skirmisher.org/?p=13#comment-252024 [...] One night I counted something like more than a dozen spiders. My ceiling was getting thicker and thicker with them, and I imagined they approved what crappy thing I happened to be writing (I usually work in my room). There was one instance when one of them rappelled from the ceiling to my shoulder and made a soft landing on my laptop. Rappelled! Like those guys from SWAT! But instead of squashing the interloper with my fist (see Destroying the Beautiful), I gently poked its belly. It panicked and pulled up frantically. It made me laugh; there was something irresistibly comical about a frightened spider, something that made you imagine that it might be thinking: “Oh, crap! Nobody mentioned this human in the travel brochure!” [...] [...] One night I counted something like more than a dozen spiders. My ceiling was getting thicker and thicker with them, and I imagined they approved what crappy thing I happened to be writing (I usually work in my room). There was one instance when one of them rappelled from the ceiling to my shoulder and made a soft landing on my laptop. Rappelled! Like those guys from SWAT! But instead of squashing the interloper with my fist (see Destroying the Beautiful), I gently poked its belly. It panicked and pulled up frantically. It made me laugh; there was something irresistibly comical about a frightened spider, something that made you imagine that it might be thinking: “Oh, crap! Nobody mentioned this human in the travel brochure!” [...]

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