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the ridiculous conclusion that these words were synonyms.
As with many synonyms, we're looking at a shade of difference. We can make all the WAGs we want about the meaning of that shade of difference but can only turn to the perpetrator of this list to find out what was meant.
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"I've read The Metamorphosis (Kafka, not Ovid). "
Well YEAH, 'cause Ovid wrote MetamorphosEs.
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today's bonus wwftd is: metamorphosable -tsuwm
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here's the Straight Dope: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/001124.html[I am particularly enamored of this approach: One school of thought holds that all stories can be summed up as Exposition/Rising Action/Climax/Falling Action/Denouement or to simplify it even further, Stuff Happens, although even at this level of generality we seem to have left out Proust.]
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#11 METAMORPHOSIS - this plot involves the physical characteristics of the Protagonist actually changing from one form to another (reflecting their inner psychological identity). #12 TRANSFORMATION - plot involves the process of change in the Protagonist as they journey through a stage of life that moves them from one significant character state to another. [em phasis added] http://www.tennscreen.com/plots.htm
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Leave it to CecilSince Cecil says: ...take out sex, violence, and death and you lose 90 percent of literature right there.The last 10% must itself be 90% humor... you know what that means... http://www.ratbike.org/motorcycho/outlawname.php
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it says here we ride together, F. - ol' headbanger, SBMC
(now wondering what this does to my Hell's Tunas status..)
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