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Akutagawa was known for piecing together many different sources for many of his stories, and "The Spider's Thread" is no exception. He read Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov in English translation sometime between 1917 and 1918, and the story of "The Spider's Thread" is a retelling of a very short fable from the novel known as the Fable of the Onion, where an evil woman who had done ...
Spider silk has been used as a thread for crosshairs in optical instruments such as telescopes, microscopes, [128] and telescopic rifle sights. [129] In 2011, silk fibres were used to generate fine diffraction patterns over N-slit interferometric signals used in optical communications. [ 130 ]
Spider webs vary widely in size, shape and the amount of sticky thread used. It now appears that the spiral orb web may be one of the earliest forms, and spiders that produce tangled cobwebs are more abundant and diverse than orb-weaver spiders .
The spider climbs to a high point and takes a stance with its abdomen to the sky, releasing fine silk threads from its spinneret until it becomes aloft. Journeys achieved vary from a few metres to hundreds of kilometres. Even atmospheric samples collected from balloons at five kilometres altitude and ships mid-ocean have reported spider landings.
The spider reels in and tightens the first strand, then carefully walks along it and strengthens it with a second thread. This process is repeated until the thread is strong enough to support the rest of the web. [14] After strengthening the first thread, the spider continues to make a Y-shaped netting.
When a spider thread reached out to the woodcutter, the oshō let out a thunderous yell, and the thread disappeared. Now knowing that the woman was actually a jorōgumo, the woodcutter still persisted and tried to gain permission for marriage from the mountain's tengu. When the tengu denied him the woodcutter ran towards the waterfall, where he ...
Threads (David S. Ware album), 2003; Threads (Now, Now album), 2012; Threads (Temposhark album), 2010; Threads (Sheryl Crow album), 2019 "Threads" (song), by This Will Destroy You from their 2008 self-titled album; Thread, a 1999 album by Wideawake; Threads, a 2021 album by the Verve Pipe; Threads, a 2015 extended play by Sarah Harding, and its ...
Caladenia erythronema, commonly known as the red thread spider orchid [2] and Nyabing spider orchid, [3] is a plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It has a single hairy leaf and up to three red, yellow or cream-coloured flowers with dangling, thread-like sepals and petals and a small ...