With the charge of parasitical behaviour, and the wince-making evocation of "vermin", we are carried back into the world of Metamorphosis.
Speaking from her ranch about 90 minutes outside Seattle, Skok marveled at the front-row seat she has had for the world's metamorphosis since 1936, with many of the changes reflected in the Olympics.
Lotte Reiniger's silhouette films of popular tales sketch for us a filigree world of metamorphoses glimpsed by candlelight; in another vein was Jim Henson's glorious TV series The Storyteller (1987-89), which mixed partially transformed real actors and dark Muppet-style creatures.
The stories, which are unrelated, are told in chronological order from the creation of the world (the first metamorphosis, of chaos into order) to the death and deification of Julius Caesar (the culminating metamorphosis).
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Its economy has been one of the fastest growing in the developed world since its metamorphosis accelerated dramatically in the 90s.
In subverting both the poetic history and the wider socio-political context that her work comes from, Revathi's poem speaks of a love for humanity: "The expected metamorphosis of this world can be brought about only by love.
They're singing nutty parables (in Spanish) about the abundance of nature and a world of magical metamorphoses, with a joy that needs no translation.
