the funnel web, native to Australia, is almost certainly the most venomous spider in the world – worse even than the Brazilian wandering spider and, God knows, they’re bad enough.
if you ever see one of the black, full bodied creatures – a Sydney male, the most venomous and aggressive of the species, i promise you, if you’ve never seen a spider before – if you didn’t know an arachnid from a hole in the ground – the moment you see a funnel web, you would know that you’re looking at something deadly.
they are men – and a few women – like that in the world.
you sense immediately that they havent been touched by the humanity that inhabits most people.