![]() “They didn’t hide their light from anyone. The Spider, ignored, experiences a nighttime epiphany as stars shine down. A five-legged creature stole the Wonder and took it back to the sky.” (This deus ex machina is a child’s hand.) Time passes, WonderVille reverts to its previous state, and insects return. That self-aggrandizing assumption is rendered moot by “the Unexpected Disaster. The Spider presumes they’ve gone to invite prospective customers. He constructs a “Grand Exhibit” to showcase “the Wonder from the Sky.” As lines of visitors lengthen, admission increases from one leaf to two-then more-until visitors cease. Is it a gumdrop, a comet, a chrysalis? The Spider, nixing the chatter, asserts that “whatever it is, it most certainly belongs to me,” insisting that the sphere has fallen into his web. The object (readers will recognize it as a yellow-green marble) invites considerable speculation. ![]() When a strange orb falls into their habitat, the Spider commandeers it, constructing “WonderVille” and selling tickets to long lines of curious insects. ![]()
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