Yon drowsing Spider that squats there upon Time's rotting timbers spinning her seven webs of a million threads, spinning and weaving from the birth of the Primitive Cycle— Her criss-crosses, her mazes and labyrinths that are called Eternal Laws by the midges caught in the films Spun by that drowsing Spider squat there upon Time's rotting timbers: Awake! thou great spinning demon, shake webs and midge-men into the Nothing, and with the shade of a smirk that I know resume thy loathsome pastime There squat upon Time's rotting timbers!
Publication History
The Shadow-Eater [1915/17 and 1923]
1923 Edition Text Changes
- rotting timbers spinning > rotting timbers ⁋ Spinning
- million threads, spinning > million threads, ⁋ Spinning
- the Nothing, and > the Nothing, ⁋ And