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If you leave books alone to build their own library hives, they end up hexagonal like those of bees. To protect the printing press that serves as queen, intruders are often trapped in endless mazes, for example Borges stumbled into one of those

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Swift shows how problems can sometimes arise: enotes.com/topics/battle- "The spider represents modernism; the bee, classicism."

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and spiders are known for weaving webs - it would've been a clever metaphor even if it had been written today but that's awesome tbh

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