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Although the four-elements paradigm remained robust throughout antiquity and through the Middle Ages (during which a mystical tradition emerged proposing a fifth element, ruling the others, the socalled quintessence ), atomism fell out of favor for nearly two millennia until the quantitative philosophy of the early Enlightenment created a conceptual environment friendly to the metamorphosis of alchemy, through the chemical experiments of Robert Hooke, Isaac Newton, Joseph Priestley, Henry Cavendish, Antoine Lavoisier and others, into something like the chemistry we were all taught in high school.
The brain hemisphere also differs from other larval tissues by not degenerating during metamorphosis.
Seth Pecksniff could no more undergo a post-mortem metamorphosis than John Calvin.
metamorphosis the butchery of a prisoner, e.g., by the castration of males, removal of the breasts of females; a term used by some Latin-American prisoners.
(Some of the freshest lines in the book come with his description of Oliver Stone's film The Doors , which "offers an inadvertent parody, a portrait of an amateur oracle's excruciatingly dull metamorphosis into a pitiful, drunken slob.")