3linesabout8legs: a spidery digression

27 Dec 2012 3 Comments

by terry wheeler in short stories Tags:

 

the jumping spider Phidippus looks amazed and amazing, amused and amusing

i think that if all spiders looked like Phidippus

arachnophobia would just                  disappear

 

3 Comments (+add yours?)

  1. rthepotter
    Dec 27, 2012 @ 17:20:09

    your octopodal
    premise: hopeful, engaging
    (sadly) fallacious

    Reply

  2. terry wheeler
    Dec 27, 2012 @ 17:30:30

    when i cling to hope
    i don’t see the fallacy
    snapping at my heels

    (but they ARE so much more adorable than most spiders . . . )

    Reply

  3. rthepotter
    Dec 30, 2012 @ 04:20:11

    ( 🙂 )

    Reply

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