They extended all around. Thin threads, woven with a lot of skill that only the most experienced spiders can do. Experience, that's what they probably needed, those spiders who knit the cobweb in that entrance hall of the hotel. Those spiderwebs weren't here yet on Wednesday, because that was the last time I was here and everything was clean. Spotless.
In those few days, I guess the following things could have happened at the hotel. It's a kind of conspiracy woven between the spiders and the cleaning ladies! Times are difficult, and the staff responsible to keep the hotel clean and shiny decided to take some days on the strike. Nada de la limpieza! Estamos en huelga. Probably they wanted a higher salary, or less work, that part I could not figure out.
Or they just became lazy. You know, it is not easy to work in that beautiful place. There is the sea, the beach, the sun... it is not impossible they just took a few days to enjoy these sunny days. Too tempting. Who would clean and work if the beautiful day is calling?
In the meantime, the spiders used that time to build their own world. They prepared the terrain and built their web. They made it pretty well, with artistry, I could say. On the wall, showcases, flowers, decorations, tables, it was everywhere. Seems they enjoyed their time and even made a favour to this place. In one or two days, some people will celebrate a thing that includes spiderwebs, and scary and creepy things. If I think better, maybe it was the idea of the hotel management so they don't have to pay a person to decorate it additionally. The spiders enjoyed making the webs, the cleaning staff enjoyed the free days and the hotel didn't have to pay for decoration. Everyone is happy in this situation!
But I know at least two people who would not enjoy this. One of my students is scared of spiders and she many times mention it to me. They moved into a new house (actually an old, but refurbished house) so there were some spiders that appeared. She was not happy with them...
And the second one is a composer, whom I could not know in person, of course, but I do know he suffered from arachnophobia. His name is György Ligeti. I wonder whether he would like this flower trapped in this cobweb.
So, who was György Ligeti?
Until now you know that he had that spider phobia, but additional (and not that important for this spider-inspired post) information is also coming. He was a Hungarian contemporary classical music composer. Béla Bartók (another Hungarian composer) influenced his music, and it can be heard very well in the set of compositions for the piano solo Musica ricercata. Ligeti used here fragments from Bartok's Mikrokosmos, but maybe you can also hear that folkloric melody in the right hand in the following composition (piece no. 7 from Musica ricercata). The left hand has a quick, seven-note ostinato during the whole piece.
I could easily imagine a spider weaving its sophisticated web, on the rhythm of this piece. Why Ligeti was scared of them? Would he survive a day in this hotel seeing the cobweb all around, even if it was just a fake one?
Let us leave it to mystery and just enjoy this composition and the decoration I saw today in the hotel where I play my Sunday gigs.
Btw, if you have an idea why there were spiderwebs here... let me know your version of the story! Be spider-inspired.
And what about this composition? Who liked it? :))
