You are listening to a Clarkswold magazine podcast with your host and narrator, Kate Baker.

Greetings, Clarkswold citizens.

I hope this podcast finds you well.

Welcome to our third story for the month of February 2023, issue 197.

Unfortunately, due to circumstances outside of our control, there will be some changes

coming to Clarkswold.

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Our story is titled larva pupa emego by Eric Schweitz-Geppel.

Eric Schweitz-Geppel, who can be found at the website, faculty.ucr.edu, forward slash

tilde, e-s-c-h-w-i-t-z, is a professor of philosophy at University of California Riverside

and cooperating member of UCR's program in speculative fiction and cultures of science.

Among his academic research interests are animal cognition, group consciousness and artificial

intelligence.

In 2021, he co-edited philosophy through science fiction stories, Bloom's Barry Press.

Among his nonfiction books are a theory of jerks and other philosophical misadventures,

MIT Press, and the weirdness of the world, forthcoming from Princeton University Press.

So my dear listener, I hope you can sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story.

Tate. Tate. A sharp flex, a crack, a sudden a wash of air, then the scent of a guru upwind.

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