Then, staggering outside in all his soggy glory, he found everything transformed.
All of a sudden the hurricane came, and everything was transformed.
The military pass through, and the tents, flags, banners, billboards – everything is transformed into rubbish.
When power arrives so too do a fridge, a cooker, a sound system, a television, and everything is transformed.
Everything — from transforming the stricken areas to nature reserves, industrial parks, solar panel farms or hiking trails — is on the table.
In a telling moment, Ríos declares that Flaubert "is proof that in literature nothing is really begun and nothing ended, that everything is transformed and continued".
It's there to give individuals the tools and motivation to do everything from transform their entire company to getting their colleagues recycling.
But the ingenious collections that both designers showed under their own labels might have been inspired by Lavoisier's famous aphorism: "Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed".
To discuss how the internet of everything will transform the startup ecology of the UK, the Guardian, in association with US technology company Cisco, invited entrepreneurs, business advisers and innovators to a roundtable discussion.
