THE INSECT PRIEST
KNOTS

A theologian who was also an amateur entomologist believed man to be a caterpillar. The theologian's ten thousand converts entombed themselves in papier maché and brown tape to await metamorphosis.
Those that survived damp desiccation, the spot-weevil, the icneumon-fly, mould, suffocation and the birds, were, on release, soon pinned up in the almighty collection.

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