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...inside: 83-year-old Wallace-"I'm a bit of a joker," he says, for the spider's only plastic-and, lurking among the books and papers that swamp what most people call the lounge room and he calls his workshop, more spiders, real but safely dead and under glass...
...talks on weapons," he says. "I thought the more we knew, the longer we had a chance of living." After the war, while he and his late wife Claire raised their three children (in this very house, which he built in 1951), he armed himself with books, a magnifying glass and, later, a video camera, and "followed up every bit of a clue I could find" about spiders. His discoveries about what he calls "probably the greatest predators of all"-our silent allies, he says, in the fight against insect pests-at times moved him to poetry: "the rearing plunge...
...fields at Gunalda, 200 km north of Brisbane, don't look especially magical. But then you walk into a shop called Wind Fairies, and you start to wonder. Inside a room hung with blue velvet and decked with gold stars and Christmas-tree lights, Rhonda Gadenne puts a small glass ball in your hand, sprinkles you with glitter and says: "Close your eyes and make your fairy wish. May your magic come true...
...money in the jukebox but can't hear his song. The older woman nods toward a wall-mounted TV, where the greyhounds are in their traps at Warrnambool. "No music till the dogs are finished," she says. Her young colleague is now circling the bar clutching a large glass jug, coins and notes beginning to fill it. "You have some money for my jar, please?" she says. Presuming she relies on tips, you drop in a couple of bucks...
...commonplace was kind of engaging. That kind of spirit becomes Ed Grimley [on Saturday Night Live]. If the phone rang, before he answered it, he'd turn to the camera and say, "Gee, I love the phone. There's always such a sense of mystery." It's the ultimate glass-half-full approach...