Apex Specimen

Casey Beal, 2025 AD

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The wonderously beautiful intern, Jerry, who defnitely did not write this caption.

Do not fall to your human knees. That fluttering of awe one feels in the pit of digestive tracts is merely an artifact of beholding an apex specimen of remarkable beauty in their natural habitat. Behold what majesty your human eye allows you to perceive of the one whose material form is known as Jerry, but do not make of his majesty an idol.

Jerry definitely did not write caption.

The serpent is the earthly essence of man of which he is not conscious. Its character changes according to peoples and lands, since it is the mystery that flows to him from the nourishing earth-mother. The earthly (numen loci) separates forethinking and pleasure in man, but not in itself. The serpent has the weight of the earth in itself, but also its changeability and germination from which everything that becomes emerges.

—The Red Book, Carl Jung, 1917 AD