Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark Arachne created blasphemous images of the gods. Furious, Athena destroyed Arachne's work. Devastated, Arachne hanged herself, but Athena took pity on Arachne and transformed her into the world's first spider. Now Arachne is cursed to wander the universe and weave her web for all eternity. After class ends, Peter's ex-best friend Flash Thompson and his gang gleefully torment the straight A student ("Bullying by Numbers"). Peter has a crush on his popular next door neighbor Mary Jane Watson, but they both have unhappy lives: Mary Jane has an abusive father and suffers at home while Peter suffers the torment of
A Noiseless Patient Spider A Noiseless Patient Spider "A Noiseless Patient Spider" is a short poem by Walt Whitman, published in an 1891 edition of "Leaves of Grass". It was originally part of his poem "Whispers of Heavenly Death", written expressly for "The Broadway, A London Magazine", issue 10 (October 1868), numbered as stanza "3". It was retitled "A Noiseless Patient Spider" and reprinted as part of a larger cluster in "Passage to India" (1871). The poem's most prevalent literary technique is imagery; it is difficult to find even one line that does not contain a vivid image. The first, and one of the