answer:Faulkner said that we ‘use one another by words like spiders dangling by their mouths from a beam, swinging and twisting and never touching’. Sometimes we come very close to touching one another, to being understood. But language, whether verbal or visual, is always an approximation or an abstraction, an inadequate translation of what we want to mean. It does make a difference, though, to attempt communication. The spiders may never touch, but they are dangling from a common beam.