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“Of bodies chang’d to various forms, I sing… / Before the seas, and this terrestrial ball, / And Heav’n’s high canopy, that covers all, / One was the face of Nature; if a face: / Rather a rude and indigested mass: / A lifeless lump, unfashion’d, and unfram’d, / Of jarring seeds; and justly Chaos nam’d. / No sun was lighted up, the world to view; / No moon did yet her blunted horns renew: / Nor yet was Earth suspended in the sky, / Nor pois’d, did on her own foundations lye: / Nor seas about the shores their arms had thrown; / But earth, and air, and water, were in one. / Thus air was void of light, and earth unstable, / And water’s dark abyss unnavigable. / No certain form on any was imprest; / All were confus’d, and each disturb’d the rest. / For hot and cold were in one body fixt; / And soft with hard, and light with heavy mixt.” The Creation of the World, Metamorphoses, by Ovid “His wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.” The transformation of Lot’s wife. Genesis XIX.26 “One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug. He lay on his armour-hard back and saw, as he lifted his head up a little, his brown, arched abdomen divided up into rigid bow-like sections. From this height the blanket, just about ready to slide off completely, could hardly stay in place. His numerous legs, pitifully thin in comparison to the rest of his circumference, flickered helplessly before his eyes.” Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis “The study was carried out among residents of Kerala, a densely populated area at the southern tip of India, where thousands of traditional fishing families have lived for generations. The residents are exposed to a naturally occurring radiation dose ten times higher than the worldwide average. The glistening black sand on the beaches contains radioactive materials such as thorium and monazite. The radioactive strip measures an area ten kilometres by one kilometre. The scientists identified 22 mutations in the mitochondrial DNA sequences of families living in the high-radiation area.” “Radioactive sand causes mutations in human DNA” Genome News Network “…and that this Minotaur was (as Euripides hath it), a mingled form where two strange shapes combined, and different natures, bull and man, were joined.” Theseus and the Minotaur, Plutarch “...Could make a ladye seem a knight / The cobwebs on a dungeon wall / Seem tapestry in lordly hall / A nut-shell seem a gilded barge, / A sheeling seem a palace large, / And youth seem age, and age seem youth: / All was delusion, nought was truth.” Sir Walter Scott on the magical powers of elves “On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. When the wine gave out, the mother of Jesus said to him, ‘They have no wine.’ And Jesus said to her, ‘Woman, what concern is that to you and to me? My hour has not yet come.’ His mother said to the servants, ‘Do whatever he tells you.’ Now standing there were six stone water jars for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding 20 or 30 gallons. Jesus said to them, ‘Fill the jars with water.’ And they filled them up to the brim. He said to them, ‘Now draw some out, and take it to the chief steward.’ So they took it. When the steward tasted the water that had become wine, and did not know where it came from.’ Gospel of St. John 2.1-10 “The scientist who grew a human ear on the back of a mouse has suggested it may one day be possible to ‘grow’ a liver. US researchers say the prospect of artificial livers has been brought closer because they have worked out how to grow deep networks of blood vessels – that has never been done before.” Artificial liver “Could be grown”, BBC news “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.” The Book of Galatians 2:20

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