‘I have been contemplating on emotion.’ ‘Emotion,’ said Dr Ramis. ‘Yes,’ said Stephen. ‘Emotion, and the expression of emotion. Now, in your fifth book, and in part of the sixth, you treat of emotion as it is shown by the cat, for example, the bull, the spider – I, too, have remarked the singular intermittent brilliance in the eyes of lycosida: have you ever detected a glow in those of the mantis?’
