While it's not wise to create gloomy thoughts about how matters might take a turn for the worse, consciously ignoring the reality that all situations transform sets you up for a great shock when that time comes.
My situation has transformed from Kafkaesque bewilderment to black farce incredulity," he said.
Then, within an astonishing 40 years - roughly between 1930 and 1970 - this bleak situation was transformed.
Late that afternoon, as my personal situation was transformed, the United States Supreme Court ordered that the recount be stopped.
My situation has transformed from Kafka-esque bewilderment to black farce incredulity," he said in his statement.
He has been there for about three weeks, and already the situation has transformed into an inadvertently hilarious psychodrama of epic proportions.
In English, Byron found that although it was a taxing business to write long poems in big stanzas, the situation was transformed entirely if the poem was satirical or otherwise absurd: if preposterous rhymes were admitted, things went with a tremendous zip.
Sometimes the situation is transformed time and again as the characters undergo a series of split-second metamorphoses: a father and daughter flying a kite turn into pirouetting ballet dancers, then into faith healers at a revival meeting, midgets at their own wedding ceremony, gamblers at a casino, accusers at a witch trial and players in a rugby game.
Israel's strategic situation was transformed after 1967: it no longer had to fight over water, and was able to co-operate "asymmetrically" with its neighbours in Jordan and (at least while the Oslo peace accords still worked) the Palestinians.And as Israel builds up its capacity to turn sea water into fresh, a new form of co-operation has been proposed.
"We see a situation totally transformed," he added.
Then, suddenly and totally unexpectedly, the situation was transformed by the invention of the Electromagnetic Pulse Bomb.
