But for 13P, the playwrights' collective to which Ms. Ruhl belongs, a human-snack metamorphosis is practically a matter of course.
The arrow is a winking joke and as subtle as the nod to the Tom Hanks body-swapping comedy "Big". It's also a reminder of Billy's larger human journey, a metamorphosis that remains humorously, identifiably awkward, even as he wills his inner super-adult to heroic life.
In humans, FOP causes metamorphosis of skeletal muscle and soft connective tissue into a second skeleton of heterotopic bone that mimic the patterns of normal embryonic skeletal formation, important differences are the lack of inflammation in embryonic skeletal induction and the relative absence of lymphocytic inflammatory cells in early fracture healing.
Goldfrapp explained that the wolves are a representation of might and mysticism and that she was "interested in the idea of metamorphosis and humans wanting to be like animals and animals wanting to be like humans".
To watch Olympic swimmers do the butterfly is to witness a metamorphosis: half-human, half-fish, wholly mesmerizing.
In a cheeky nod to epic poetry, Barlow's début novel is written entirely in free verse and concerns a metamorphosis, of humans into wolves, in Los Angeles.
Elsewhere human bodies undergo strange metamorphoses: becoming trees, in contemporary drawings by Robert Gober and Marcel Dzama, or robots, in a collage by the Pop artist Eduardo Paolozzi.
The procedure of this passage, as in much of Powell, is to "out" the homoerotics of high poetic diction: the "trunks" of trees stir with human forms (Ovid's "Metamorphoses" is behind much of Powell's work) because the word "trunk" carries a double sense we have to strain pretty hard to ignore.
This essay argues that the writings of Libyan Ibrahim al-Kuni, and particularly Nazif al-hajar with its emphasis on animal-human juxtapositions and metamorphoses, should be considered examples of Arab magical realism.
