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One of these is Ovidian, a new Metamorphoses 'Now I am ready to tell how bodies are changed/Into different bodies', from Ted Hughes's translation of same, is one of the novel's epigraphs, which in Amis's novel becomes about how at adolescence gawky children suddenly change their bodies into loci of extraordinary sexual desirability; balanced at the other end by how middle-age suddenly metamorphoses your youthful frame into something hideous and balding and wrinkled and liverspotted.
Martin Amis, The Pregnant Widow (2010) Adam Roberts 2010
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One of these is Ovidian, a new Metamorphoses 'Now I am ready to tell how bodies are changed/Into different bodies', from Ted Hughes's translation of same, is one of the novel's epigraphs, which in Amis's novel becomes about how at adolescence gawky children suddenly change their bodies into loci of extraordinary sexual desirability; balanced at the other end by how middle-age suddenly metamorphoses your youthful frame into something hideous and balding and wrinkled and liverspotted.
Archive 2010-03-01 Adam Roberts 2010
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