Or another analogy would be, a caterpillar has been turned into a butterfly.

But Queequeg, do you see, was a creature in the transition stage neither caterpillar nor butterfly.

And so, where are we? We're at the demise of the caterpillar stage of civilization and the rise of the butterfly.

Caterpillar.

Caterpillar?

Butterfly?

Butterfly (Laughter)

CATERPlLLAR, BUTTERFLY

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That's a butterfly.

What butterfly collection?

'Why?' said the Caterpillar.

'No,' said the Caterpillar.

Oh, there's a butterfly!

What's a mummified butterfly?

You're just a butterfly.

Now I'm a butterfly.

'It isn't,' said the Caterpillar.

'You!' said the Caterpillar contemptuously.

The cats, the caterpillar tractors.

I caught a beautiful butterfly.

Could start a butterfly collection

Chapter V. Advice from a Caterpillar

'I don't see,' said the Caterpillar.

'Not a bit,' said the Caterpillar.

'I DON'T know,' said the Caterpillar.

Mr Caterpillar, what will I do?

What's a butterfly without its wings?

Good morning my pretty little butterfly.

Why, you old social butterfly, you.

The butterfly is far more beautiful.

'Come back!' the Caterpillar called after her.

'Can't remember WHAT things?' said the Caterpillar.

The Caterpillar was the first to speak.

Those are actually all real butterfly specimens.

The Gulf fritillary or passion butterfly ( Agraulis vanillae ) is a bright orange butterfly of the family Nymphalidae and subfamily Heliconiinae.

A child, like a butterfly, that could have spread its bright, wide wings to fly, to live like a butterfly.

'That is not said right,' said the Caterpillar.

I'm a monkey blowing kisses at a butterfly.

They're butterfly specimens who have a natural camouflage.

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Oh. I'm sorry. But you see, the caterpillar said

Green dragon on his chest, butterfly on the shoulders.

It's a lovely spider... and it's eating a butterfly.