Chrysalis

No, no matter how far Ray Kurzweil gets with his artificial intelligence project at Google, we cannot simply rise from the chrysalis of matter as pure consciousness.

June 11. it chryſaliſed into a ſmall round ſilk-bag, mothed the 27th. […] The ground of the caterpillar is yellow, thick ſet with warts, and black-haired ſtars; chryſaliſed into a ſilk-bag Jan. 17. hatched the 28th into a yellow moth, ſhaded with red, as the painting repreſents it.

One memorable day last January a caterpillar which had chrysalised happily in a ventilator came out in the office in full glory as a butterfly, under the impression it was summer.

Only in spring does a fourth larva, similar to the second one, develop, chrysalising later and then becoming a beetle.

The length of the worm period with temperature 11·4°C is 40—42 days, and with 24·5°C is 8—11 days. It chrysalises on the plant.

These can be bought in any angling shop for a few pence, and can be kept in the fridge, to stop them from chrysalising, for at least a month.

I hope to send it home if it chrysalises.

The Caterpillar, on the other hand, has a very firm understanding of the self he is, and cannot understand why Alice is not equally certain about her self; yet, as Alice later points out, the Caterpillar will at some stage undergo his own transformation, much more fundamental than hers, when he chrysalises and transforms into a butterfly.

He is in uniform, and for three years flutters on the parade, in the beer-gardens, in the gallery at the theatre, and then he chrysalises into the old paternal bauer suit and the patriarchal ideas.

“THE PALACE OF PUCK” CHRYSALISED INTO MUSICAL COMEDY—BUTTERFLIES AT THE APOLLO

Here philosophic thought overgrows art and compels it to cling close to the trunk of dialectics. The Apollonian tendency has chrysalised in the logical schematism; just as something analogous in the case of Euripides (and moreover a translation of the Dionysian into the naturalistic emotion) was forced upon our attention.

Operations of the Company are at present in the transition stage; the proposition is chrysalising from the state of initial enterprise into the larger magnitude of one of the foremost […]

Their sizes are determined by the size and depth of lift-pump, always allowing a large margin of safety for flaws, fatigue of metal, changes of temperature and anno domini which is for ever chrysalising and rendering them brittle.

That was several years ago, and sure enough the tomboy chrysalised into the being known as “the Gellibrand,” the sophisticated beauty, the hot-house specimen who wore mediæval garments, and who moved instinctively in slow motion, about whom the whole town was talking.

A government caterpillar is chrysalising: what kind of butterfly flies away remains a matter for conjecture.

The skinny, dark-eyed girl whom I had refused to kiss—when we played “Johnny Brown” so many years before—had chrysalised into a slim-waisted butterfly who was quick to turn the tables on me.

Jessamine Morrow had chrysalised overnight: she was a monarch butterfly.

When the event of meeting is past, when the I-Thou butterfly has been chrysalised into I-She, or I-He, or other forms of I-It, the possibility of relationship still continues, and genuine relationship deepens through everyday interactions between moments of I-Thou meetings.

Drumlin Caddis, Sentinel, has chrysalised and emerged as the Lord Freyr’s envoi.

The rugby club disbanded in 1896 for twenty-two years, five years before the football team chrysalised into Worcester City.

This who had chrysalised from beneath the thick middens of all our campfires, yet perfectly unmiff’d in manikin form of the mature woman that was just before us at the money drawer and now replaced.

Now that the sullen, dowdy-looking girl from the caravan had chrysalised into a sexy young woman, they wanted her more than ever.