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...London, brother of very-cynical-about-nothing-in-particular Author Aldous Huxley, related observations in the realm of his famed grandfather, Zoologist Thomas Henry Huxley. Courtships among low forms of life were his theme: male bristleworms wriggling in groups around females; fiddler crab bridegrooms posturing on tip-claw; hunting spider suitors offering a fly, neatly wrapped in webbing, to their prospective mates; penguins presenting bits of stone for nest-material. Professor Huxley also demonstrated that a fixed ratio exists between the members and body-weight of organisms of all sizes. A moose's antlers are in the same proportion...
...about the countryside?Lolly made certain of Satan for what he is?a black knight wandering about succoring decayed gentlewomen; a loving huntsman who affords empty lives some adventure by pursuing their souls in all their windings, patiently, secretly, like a gentleman stalking tigers. . . . Such a delicate perfection in spider-claw prose is not published once in a crooked moon. It is the kind of book that travels from hand to hand more rapidly than news of any other kind, for there is a magic upon...
...interesting thing was discovered some time ago," Professor Brues continued, "when in one piece of amber was found a spider and in another the remains of an insect which had obviously been entangled in a spider's web and eaten, these animals of three to ten million years ago showing habits remarkably similar to those...
Federal Education. For several years, with Job-like patience and spider-like persistence, the N. E. A. has sought to have a U. S. Secretary of Education installed in the President's cabinet, together with an Assistant Secretary, empowered to take over the present functions (advisory, informative) of the Bureau of Education (Department of the Interior). Usually, repetition of this urgent desire is postponed by the N. E. A. to the resolution-adopting session at the close of the conference...
Tiddde-de-dumpty, tiddle-de-dee- The spider courted the frisky flea; Tiddle-de-dumpty, tiddle-de-doo- The flea ran off with the bugaboo...