Diary of a Cicada
For 17 years, a Magicicada lives underground as an ugly nymph feeding on roots. In the summer of its seventeenth year, it instinctively constructs an exit tunnel and emerges above ground. It molts for the last time into an exquisite flying creature. Then for two days, this beautiful insect consumes rainbows of pills, tirelessly copulates, hits the road, and almost figures it all out…