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Arachnopopeia
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Monday, 28 September 2009
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Had it been crawling over someone in darker clothes, we might never have seen that spider, creeping across the Pope in Prague. It says something about about his deep concentration that he hardly noticed. It also says something about Papal untouchability. Had that been Obama, the Queen, the Dalai Lama or the Chief Rabbi, you might imagine a member of their entourage stepping briefly forward to brush the creature away. And it may say something else. Both the Pontiff and the spider are 'living symbols'. But where the Pope represents faith, a spider symbolises the inescapable web of fate.
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