“We don’t see things as they are, but as we are.”

—ANAÏS NIN

“Transformation … Transformation is a marvelous thing. I am thinking especially of the transformation of butterflies. Though wonderful to watch, transformation … is not a particularly pleasant process for the subject involved.”

—VLADIMIR NABOKOV, 1951 CORNELL LECTURE ON
THE METAMORPHOSIS AND DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE