The Way of the Serpent.

The adder is not far from the left, nor far from the right. The adder always slids in the middle, flirts with the charmer. The charmer has laid the mattress at the front of the adder's pit. As the dance begins,  suddenly it stops.  The adder's poison has worked on the deaf charmer. The charmer falls into the adder's pit,  for the adder has rejected the voice of the charmer.