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[“BLA and GB Gabbler” (really just a pen name – singular) are the Editor and Narrator behind THE AUTOMATION, vol. 1 of the Circo del Herrero series. They are on facebook, twitter, tumblr, goodreads, and Vulcan’s shit list.]

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Sara Myers: New Introduction to Ovid’s Metamorphoses:

“Many metamorphoses involve the loss of the most characteristic feature of humanity, the ability to speak: Io is reduced to mooing, Echo to repetition. Metamorphosis also operates as actualized metaphor: Anaxarete is the proverbial hardhearted mistress; impervious to the entreaties of her would-be lover, she is literally turned to stone.”

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Loss of the ability to speak.

2009.

[“BLA and GB Gabbler” (really just a pen name – singular) are the Editor and Narrator behind THE AUTOMATION, vol. 1 of the Circo del Herrero series. They are on facebook, twitter, tumblr, goodreads, and Vulcan’s shit list.]

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