Patty Seyburn
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Pop-Quiz

1) Discuss the diminutive stature of the hero.

2) Draw the face of futility.

3) Debate: victim or predator?

4) Can one emerge from the parlour, unscathed?

5) Do the repetitions of “spout” and “rain” suggest:

a) the fluid, the arid?

b) the fecund, the barren?

6) Write a dialogue between sun and rain where the sun explains

ascent and the rain, her feelings of entrapment.

7) The spider’s action brackets:

a) the triumph of will

b) x as the inevitable.

8) Demonstrate: ladder fingers.

9) Wax poetic: “the sun’s rounded arms.”

10) Source? “Vertical, vertical. . . all is vertical.”

11) Why is the spider so often asked to stand in for homo erectus?

12) Quest-romance? Bildungsroman?

13) Down, down, down – would the fall never come to an end?

14) Defend: the fly’s vanity, her demise.

15) True or False: My Father’s House Has Many Corners.