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...WHITE has a rather strange mind. To a normal eight-year-old, he's just an exceptionally good author. But to someone older, who has never experienced the joy of Charlotte's Web or Stuart Little, he is, as a friend of mine said recently, "very weird." True, spiders don't usually weave slogans such as "Some Pig" into their webs to save pigs from being slaughtered; and human parents don't usually give birth to a son who looks exactly like a mouse. But none of that matters, because they're all very real, endearing characters with real problems...
Japanese mythology once held that earthquakes were caused by movements of a great spider that carried the earth on its back. Mongolians blamed earth tremors on the unsteady support of a giant hog. Early seismologists assumed that the chronic buckling and lunging of the earth's surface was the result of the globe's slow cooling and contraction. Now new instruments and theories are changing what was once a guessing game into precise science. Some seismologists are even saying that accurate prediction of earthquakes is only three to five years away, and that control of quakes...
...there are the crabs. The horseshoe crab, which has a hysterically catalytic effect on me, perversely flipped over on its back just as we reached him. I clutched my sides and staggered away. I would rather have fought a million basilisks, or Spiro Agnew, than seen this ghastly sea spider. Searching for air, we came into the Harbor Room, a pleasant glass corner suspended over the outside water. An Italian lady turned to her son, gestured toward one of the two ships on the bay, and said to the boy, "There's the boat that daddy...
Later, after they got back to Mt. Auburn and Plympton, Flex and his buddy headed back to their room. Spider slipped off his PFC's, his black leather jacket, and the other stuff and put it all nearly away until the next time he might have a chance to get slicked up. After a long quiet spell, when he just collected his thoughts, Spider went...
...Spider's pillow case was never quite the same...