The shroud itself became a story almost instantly. 'Penelope's web', it was called; people used to say that of any task that remained mysteriously un… - Margaret Atwood

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The shroud itself became a story almost instantly. 'Penelope's web', it was called; people used to say that of any task that remained mysteriously unfinished. I did not appreciate the term web. If the shroud was a web, then I was a spider. But I had not been attempting to catch men like flies: on the contrary, I'd merely been trying to avoid entanglement myself.