Patrick Langley on Comedy and Violence
Briefly

Perhaps above all, he knows, all too well, the mood that comes upon him whenever Spider is therenot a physical quality, exactly, but a felt sense of its presence.
To say of Spider that it trips Fletcher up or weighs him down is to state the material case using figures of speech.
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