You have created your own myth of Origins. It should humble us that the spider's ability to weave trumps our rational ability. To think we are dependent on the activity of spiders makes me queasy. I want to believe with Yeats in a different myth:
EVERYTHING THAT FLAMES AGAINST THE NIGHT
MAN'S OWN RESINOUS HEART HAS FED.
Yeats grants this cosmic identity to humanity which is heroic. But your myth is just as likely
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You have created your own myth of Origins. It should humble us that the spider's ability to weave trumps our rational ability. To think we are dependent on the activity of spiders makes me queasy. I want to believe with Yeats in a different myth: EVERYTHING THAT FLAMES AGAINST THE NIGHT MAN'S OWN RESINOUS HEART HAS FED. Yeats grants this cosmic identity to humanity which is heroic. But your myth is just as likely