Yet, if transmogrification is going to occur, I'd wager that it is easier to turn oneself into a wolf than one's enemy into a toad.
It threads its way around the pitfalls of personal writing: the need to turn oneself into a character; to write honestly, assertively about friends and family; and to find exactly where and how to sign off.
In a dance form like flamenco — in which the elusive goal, in a manner of speaking, is to turn oneself inside out — that is not necessarily a good thing.
If pre-eminence was measured purely in terms of talk – the ability to generate acres of newsprint and blogospheric comment; to turn oneself into a fulcrum of fevered pro- and anti-debate – you'd have to say that MIA beat all comers.
By contrast, the language of need may also be turned on oneself, becoming a surprisingly powerful soft weapon.
One may actually turn on oneself.
In those same seeds, however, are elements that can later cause the carrier to self-destruct, for it is bitterness and hatred -- those same feelings that helped bring about liberation -- that are turned on oneself.
Nykänen [ 31] argues that if one's conscience knows what is right but one still does what one believes others expect, one is directed by a false conscience and ultimately turns against oneself.
You can't listen to 'Summer Wind' without turning the pages within oneself".
