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Bolas spider

The Observer

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January 25, 2026

The meaning of life is silk.

- As told to Simon Barnes

As the human mind can think different thoughts, so I can think different kinds of silk: call them into being with the strength of my silken mind. Silk is everything. I use it for life and I use it for death.Monday

I look like shit. You can look into my eight eyes and say that to my face - I won't be offended. I’m not that kind of girl. Looking like shit is just part of my cunning. There I lie on my leaf through the long hot day, looking like a dollop of bird shit. I'm as safe in my disguise as I would be in a hole 100ft deep. And when night falls, I move.

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