On Housekeeping

I’m sitting in the mansion right now, looking down at a copy of The Big Sleep, which I should be reading for one of my classes. The maintenance crew has made it their job today to remove some of the spider webs from around the building. When I was a freshman, I used to walk out to the archway in the courtyard to look at the web the spiders created. I’m not sure if it was meditative or something, but I got really attached to watching them, and I hate to see their masterpieces destroyed. Yes, I guess I do get a sick sense of satisfaction when one of them falls on the maintenance guy with the long yellow broom. In his shriek there is justice.

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