Consider the black widow spider. It's a timid little beastie, useful and, for my taste, the prettiest of the arachnids, with its shiny, patent-leather finish and its red hourglass trademark. But the poor thing has the fatal misfortune of possessing enormously too much power for its size. So everybody kills it on sight.
Robert A. HeinleinAbout author
- Author's profession: Writer
- Nationality: american
- Born: July 7, 1907
- Died: May 8, 1988
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