Caterpillar

Why a Caterpillar...? To explain this requires an explanation of the origins of the bug names as a whole, which is as follows:

One day our favorite teacher, having assigned us what was probably book number two of the three we read the whole year (including all 1,000 pages of Canterbury tales... right), Kafka's The Metamorphosis, came to the class with an astounding revalation that had occurred to her in one of her vodka-induced states of extended consciousness. We would all draw pictures to represent how we saw ourselves in the bug-infested tale. To illustrate the brilliance of the idea to the sluggish students she was forced to try to enlighten, she had already drawn her own. It showed her, as a cockroach-esque specimen, teaching a class of rather putrid species in the Kingdom Insecta, including, I believe, a rat (our fearless leader not hving taken AP Bio), and amidst them one shining butterfly, who was seated, due, of course, to the most stunning coincidence, exactly where her favorite pupil sat in our class! The rest of us, misderected by this catastrophic happenstance, tried to discover which bugs (or rodents...) represented us. And thence our nicknames were born. Our dear caterpillar is just as philosophical and pedantic as the fated butterfly who gained our worthy tutor's admiration, with one small flaw which hindered her from total enlightenment: she had a small measure of cynicism against the tacher which she allowed to leak out, and was thus condemned to live her life in half-light, a caterpillar never to become a butterfly.

Here we see the caterpillar just emerging into life: a rare and strangely beautiful occurrence.

The mischevious nature which condemned the caterpillar to eternal insect adolescence shows through in this shot.

But it is here that her true devilish self shines clearly through. No wonder she can never achieve academic ohm. (or is it her B in chemistry? The world may never know...)

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