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alcoholics do it with particular zeal and precision. We can be ace chameleons, twisting ourselves into two, three, four versions of ourselves and using drink to lubricate the transformations. You tell me who to be. And you, and now you.

Caroline Knapp • Drinking: A Love Story

It’s less about the identity of the “singers” in the lichen, and more about what they do—the metabolic “song” that each of them sings. In this view, lichens are dynamic systems rather than a catalogue of interacting components.

The Metamorphoses Of Ovid

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sleek-haired, brown-skinned, quick and deft in all her movements; she reminded me of a wren.

Pat Barker • The Silence of the Girls: A Novel

The possibility means that, along with assuming corporeal form, spirit beings might be able to alter that form—that is, changing appearance may be among their suite of abilities.

Michael S. Heiser • Angels

polyartists & multiplicity

Leandra Bräuninger • 14 cards

You are not your nature. You are your actions. You are in control. You get to choose. To hide behind our nature is to give up our power. Take back that power.

I Believe I Can Change! (Know You Can Reshape Your Mind) Our personalities are malleable. We can reshape ourselves.

Todd Herman • The Alter Ego Effect: The Power of Secret Identities to Transform Your Life

Rather, our bodies are capable of mixing and matching features of each of these systems to create autonomic cocktails that serve very specific functions.