The young Steve Case joined CVC from a marketing job at Pizza Hut after an introduction from a venture capitalist who had backed the company—his brother, Dan.CVC, which was dubbed "Out Of Control Video" by one of its disillusioned investors, went through several metamorphoses before becoming America Online Inc in 1991 and successfully going public on the Nasdaq stock exchange a year later.
One evening it dissolves and Sid decides to re-write it from memory—in effect, becoming Gould, just as Gould ultimately metamorphoses into a fish, taking Sid with him into his new element.In this section Blue days Holy grails Bravehearts Rock of all ages Rages of fear Stones of contention Hidden depths ReprintsThis is art-as-life-as-art, and "round and round"—a signature phrase.
Jonathan Cape; 585 pages; £20A history of Wroclaw, or Breslau, that is rich in narrative and detail, and which charts the city's metamorphoses from Polish to German and then, tragically, with the horrendous wartime loss of both its Jewish and German people and cultures, back once more to Polish.
This was what mostly happened in a recent collection, "After Ovid" (Faber & Faber; 320 pages; £8.99), in which four poems from Mr Hughes's new book first appeared.The collection's editors, Michael Hofmann and James Lasdun, invited 42 poets to muse on snatches from "Metamorphoses".
And as it migrates, holiness metamorphoses in odd ways, absorbing the concerns of every place it reaches.Sometimes ideas, or forms of worship, are disseminated; sometimes architectural styles, such as the replicas of Christ's tomb that were built all over Europe.
Consider the difference between the famously beautiful boy, who spurned the advances of others, and another unfortunate character from Ovid's "Metamorphoses".
Hughes's poetry lost much of its force after this, although the best of his work over the next decade or so, in such books as "Season Songs" (1975) and "Moortown" (1979), returned to the land.In 1994, he contributed to an anthology inspired by Ovid's "Metamorphoses", poems in which humans are transformed into beasts by the gods.
Chaucer, who said Dryden in many things resembled him", retold stories from Ovid's "Metamorphoses" in "The House of Fame", calling one of the house's pillars after "Venus clerk Ovyde".Ovid's reputation reached its zenith in Elizabethan England, with the translation of "Metamorphoses" by Arthur Golding a book Ezra Pound called the most beautiful in English.
Ted Hughes, Britain's poet laureate, has had the sort of public attention this past fortnight few poets get in a lifetime.On January 27th, he won the Whitbread prize in competition with a novel and a biography for "Tales from Ovid"*, a reworking of the Latin poet's "Metamorphoses".
Best known for "Metamorphoses", her adaptation of Ovid's poem, she revels in old texts.
