“I excel at pulling strings!” said Arachne. “I’m a spider!”
Source: The Mark of Athena
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“We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces.”
Act II.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power”
X, 38
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book X
Context: Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life,—there, if one must speak out, the real man.
“Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.”
“Walk into my parlour said the spider to the fly”
August 1872 debate Sarnia - to Macdonald in declining Macdonald’s offer for Mackenzie to join the Coalition Cabinet in 1865 upon George Brown’s resignation in protest - Buckingham page 324
First Week, Sixth Day. Compare: "Much like a subtle spider which doth sit In middle of her web, which spreadeth wide; If aught do touch the utmost thread of it, She feels it instantly on every side", John Davies, The Immortality of the Soul.
La Semaine; ou, Création du monde (1578)
“Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he.”
Source: The Complete Sherlock Holmes
“We’re all puppets, Laurie. I’m just a puppet who can see the strings.”
Source: Doctor Manhattan, in Watchmen #9 (referring to Doctor Manhattans's theory of time)