Word: arachnid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...examines those cigarettes and whom he sees in that faded snapshot - questions resolved at the proper theatrical instants. Moreover, Karla, in a pivotal chapter, turns out not to be inhuman after all; he has, in fact, Victorian sentiments, although in all previous appearances, he has been nothing but an arachnid...
Solar Cycle. Other earthlings aboard Skylab did not fare as well. The spider Arabella, which became famous by demonstrating that it could spin a web in zero G, survived the return to earth. But its arachnid companion Anita died before the end of the mission, apparently of starvation; Anita stubbornly refused to eat the morsels of filet mignon that were offered. Other casualties were the two minnows that had been carried aboard Skylab. However, their offspring - the first earth creatures to be born in space (except, perhaps, for some offspring of stowaway bacteria on earlier nights) - made it safely...
...displacement, there were incompatibilities. Aquarians were eccentric and extremely difficult to judge. Uranus had bestowed on them the gift of radical vision and strong impulses to alter the status quo. On the other hand, Scorpios-ruled by Pluto and Mars-were drawn to private, clandestine lives. Like the stinging arachnid of their sign, some could be dangerous in a hellish way. Scorpio had a habit of seeking warmth in the boots of bigger men. The safariing Hemingway, a Cancer, would rarely forget to shake his out in the morning...