Michael Malone - Weebly

Rage.
So entangled are we in our own designs that the
concurrent and often conflicting plots of our families,
friends, and enemies may come to us as surprises
suddenly unraveled or traps suddenly sprung. Our show
of surprise is our way of protesting the injuries done us,
or denying that we have offered bribes for the gifts
bestowed. If no one can see into another's heart,
Beanie tells Winslow, it is probably because no one
comes close enough, or stays long enough, or "listens
loud enough over the thump of their own," to see and
hear.
Spiders fast in the centers of our own webs, we are
busy creating the world in which we live. But as we spin
out of ourselves our private universes, in the end the
webs tangle, and we become flies to one another,
caught for good or evil. Caught by surprise.
The certainty—that there are larger plots, Byzantine
and diabolical webs in which a few are spiders and the
rest witless flies—is a popular faith among paranoid
atheists like A.A. Hayes, who is very fond of the spider
metaphor. Once they had condemned God for what He