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...Aesop's fable about the lion and the mosquito. The analogy would be complete if the might of the U.S. lion should prove less effective than the peskiness of Ho Chi Minh, the mosquito. Aesop's victorious mosquito, however, was soon trapped by the web of the spider. And isn't Red China's web all primed...
...Colorado is a life-giving stream for much of the arid U.S. Southwest and for Mexico's Mexicali Valley. Under a 1944 treaty, the U.S. promised to share the river for irrigation. Mexico built a dam one mile below the border, spider-webbed the once desolate Mexicali Valley with irrigation canals. Then in 1961, under the Wellton-Mohawk reclamation project in Arizona's Yuma Desert, U.S. cotton growers began draining salty irrigation water from their soil-and flushed the residue back into the river, whose salt content rose from a tolerable 800 parts...
ROUSSEL: THE SPIDER'S FEAST (Angel). For this ballet pantomime, inspired by the observations of French Entomologist Jean Henri Fabre, Roussel's impressionistic music transports the ants and the beetles into an enchanted cobwebbed garden. Andre Cluytens and the Paris Conservatory Orchestra touch other milestones of the composer's career by playing his later ballet music, Bacchus et Ariane, and the Sinfonietta for Strings, a miniature symphony in his mature classical style...
With their spider...
Adam sunbathes, smokes, writes to his girl friend, sees the sun transformed into a monstrous spider or a thousandarmed octopus. His girl visits him. They go to the beach, where Adam feels himself turning to a statue, "his flesh freezing into a minera1." He runs, and suddenly knows that the earth is hostile, molten under a thick crust; he has visions of "the flames of petrified nature." He goes to the zoo, and feels "at one with the lizards, mice, beetles or pelicans. He has discovered that the best way to mix with a species is to make oneself desire...