I went back into the house and had put on the kettle for another cup of tea when my attention was caught by a spider on the kitchen wall. As I drew nearer to look at it, the spider called out, "Hello!" It did not seem at all strange to me that a spider should say hello {any more than it seemed strange to Alice when the White Rabbit spoke}. I said, "Hello, yourself," and with this we started a conversation, mostly on rather technical matters of analytic philosophy. Perhaps this direction was suggested by the spider's opening comment: did I think that Bertrand Russell had exploded Frege's paradox? Or perhaps it was its voice-pointed, incisive, and just like Russell's voice {which I had heard on the radio, but also-hilariously-as it had been parodied in Beyond the Fringe}.9 D
( Oliver Sacks )
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