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Adam J. Szubin '95 likened the creation to a spider's web. "We meant it as an expression of excitement, enthusiasm, and fun-loving frolic," he said...
Instead, if I see a spider in my bedroom, I'll make a little agreement with it. I'll inform it (sometimes telepathically, sometimes out loud) that I'm about to leave the room. I'll warn it to disappear from sight. And usually, when I return, I won't see it anymore. I'll pretend it was never there...
...takes a little longer with some bugs. They don't seem to get the picture. Last summer, as I was crawling into bed, I spotted a big, black spider on the ceiling. He was a pretty intimidating insect, but it was late, and I was tired. I didn't want to leave the room. I also didn't want the spider to crawl on me. So I kept the light on, lay awake in bed, and worked hard on the telepathy...
...spider crawled slowly across the ceiling. Sometimes he crawled toward me. That was when I got worried. I'm a little skeptical of bugs crawling sideways and upside down. I don't have that much faith in their sticking. I've always theorized that it's a mind-over-matter thing, and that once a spider realizes he's violating every law of gravity I can think of, he'll topple to the ground...
Sure, I could have saved myself some stress--and earned myself some sleep--by rolling up a magazine and smacking him into oblivion. But I think this was a better system for both of us. The spider got to live. And I didn't have to take its life away...