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By Polly Morland

What makes a violinist develop into a policeman, or a monk fall in love? How does an individual lose eighteen stone in as many months? Or a follower of radical Islam flip his again on holy warfare? whilst can easily taking a brand new identify bring in a brand new existence? and the way does a kinfolk adapt to the mind harm that adjustments their son or brother past acceptance? those and different tales mix with a wealth of clever considering from psychology, philosophy, literature and technological know-how as Polly Morland unravels the mysteries and the mechanisms of human swap. such a lot folks want to switch whatever approximately ourselves, even supposing all too usually we think that we won't. but as this ebook exhibits, switch isn't really an event-it is a strategy at which we're extra expert than we have an understanding of, a narrative we're already solid at telling. Exploring how a few humans harness the swap that governs all our lives after which achieve shaping it, like grasp storytellers, towards the chuffed finishing in their determining, Polly Morland exhibits that fluctuate is feasible for us all. beautiful to that a part of a person that's caught in a rut, Metamorphosis is ready how and why actual humans swap, and the way the mind's eye can develop into the engine of our transformation too.

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And that leaves us with a slippery question indeed: not whether to try and change, or even why, but what – the heart, the mind, the senses, the body or even, perhaps, the name? This question brings us to the whimsical parable of the two Alina Simones, a tale that has more than a little in common with Harry Houdini’s Metamorphosis trick. Stroll towards the raised lawns and market stalls of Union Square before ducking down a cross street into the enclave of Gramercy. A singer-songwriter of some repute with three widely acclaimed albums under her belt, she has not long passed her fortieth birthday, but the entity named Alina Simone is, she says, not yet fifteen years old.

They maintain that personality is supple, flexible and dynamic; that much of who we are occurs at levels between those broad traits and within our beliefs and behaviour, our sense of self and of agency. We should not forget the magnificent plasticity of our brains, or the cellular ephemerality of our bodies – and we shall come to those in due course – but when considering the extent to which any of us can really change, we would do well to keep in mind how far from clear consensus the experts on all this really are.

The boys stay under the bed or the umuvure for a few days more, but the men come back and back. Outside, the situation is escalating; soon even children are no safer than their parents. So on a Sunday morning Félix’s wife takes Hyppolite and Protais by the hand, as though they are her own Hutu children, and they walk as a family to church, little knowing what will unfold there tomorrow. Dressed in mossy green and beige from shirt to shoes, his smooth dark face open, direct and animated, Hyppolite seems like a little shred of quick, organic matter in this anodyne modern box.

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