Friday, December 15, 2023

Beetle-oil lamps in Spider World

I’ve started reading the first of Colin Wilson’s Spider World novels. The human characters use lamps that burn insect oil, apparently primarily from beetles.

We’re getting awfully close to “With spider’s oil the lamps of Salem burn.” It’s not spider’s oil, but it’s in a spider-centric novel, and any sort of creepy-crawly being a source of lamp oil is a pretty unusual idea.

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