This is why, "gathering spiderwebs" is now code for "doing something dull and mindless [perhaps in preparation for doing something fun]." Sort of like how Scout explains (in To Kill a Mockingbird) that "selling cotton"* is a polite term for pretty much doing nothing. Like, "And what does your uncle do?" "Oh, well, he sells cotton."
*Someone who has read this book in the past deceade, please correct me if I have bungled the expression.
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Date: 2008-06-12 06:01 pm (UTC)*Someone who has read this book in the past deceade, please correct me if I have bungled the expression.