"They must carry a message, a message of the temperment I love. The spider is my mother, believe it or not. That is to say the person who's totally reliable, totally intellectual, totally logical with no burst of passion. I really don't appreciate passion... ...It is my mother, not only that, but I try to immitate her. I try to be as smart as she used to be... ...The spider, an ode to my mother, to go a little further, it represents a reconcilation. That is to say, I try terribly hard to be thinking and calculating the person my mother was. Unfortunately I don't make it very well, and I'm more gifted and happier with the work of emotion that my father represented... ...I inheritated my mother's intellect, and my father's sick heart."
