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...about everything except his own sex life. Sex, typically, is represented by Doris, a lower-class ball of margarine-and-fun; also typically, the hero's wife is a virtuous bore with a distressing number of ailments. Huxley writes of women with the ruminative repulsion of a male spider half-digested in mid-honeymoon. When Mrs. Hutton is poisoned, it looks like Hutton's work. Actually another Huxley horror woman has done the deed. Hutton, the reader feels in the end, was unjustly but well and truly hanged...
...money, not for spite, not for hate. They killed him as they might kill a spider or a fly, for the experience. They killed him because they were made that way. Because somewhere in the infinite processes that go to the making up of the boy or the man, something slipped...
Food for a Spider. Lee never panicked. An astute (IQ: 140) watcher of cowboy and adventure TV shows, he peered through the holes in the trunk, made mental notes of the car's movements. For three nights the boy and his kidnaper slept in the car. Each morning the two drove into the back country west of Everett. They spent their days in the woods happily engrossed in nature study, fed small spiders to big spiders ("The big spiders would grab the little ones and roll them up in a ball. Bob said that was for their winter food...
Died. Sir Michael William Selby Bruce, 63, descendant of Scotland's first King Robert Bruce (the spider watcher), brother of the late Actor Nigel Bruce, soldier, adventurer, author (No Escape from Adventure), and Canada's only titled newspaper columnist (the Vancouver Province); of a coronary thrombosis; in Vancouver...
...payoff comes after a spider has settled down to a routine of high living and weaving perfect webs of traditional pattern. Dr. Bercel then gives it no food for a day. In the evening he offers it a doctored fly-one that he has killed without damaging its form and from which he has drained the blood. He replaces this with human blood serum taken from schizophrenic patients. Since the dead fly does not buzz or struggle, Dr. Bercel fools the spider into thinking that it is alive by twanging a tuning fork (middle C) near the web. The spider...