[extropy-chat] Re: sexy shape-shifting

[Brian Mackenzie]

A couple of good books related to the topic of shape-shifting are Fred Alan
Wolf's _The Eagle's Quest_, in which he visits with a couple of shamanic
practitioners (Native Americans, I believe) who are adept at shape-shifting,
creating dopplegangers (or being in two places at once), etc.

Then there is the fictional but very suggestive novel _The Wood Wife_. A web
page exploring the various metaphors (including shapeshifting) used by the
author can be seen here:

http://www.mythicjourneys.org/passages/septoct2003/newsletterp10.html

Also the movie "Underworld" is all about shapeshifting "weres" and
vampires....

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> > Now one autumn morning when the wind had blown all
> > the leaves  off
> > the trees in the night, and was trying to blow the
> > branches off,
> > Pooh and Piglet were sitting in the Thoughtful Spot
> > and wondering.
> >
> > "What I think," said Pooh, "is I think we'll go to
> > Pooh Corner and
> > see Eeyore, because perhaps his house has been blown
> > down, and
> > perhaps he'd like us to build it again."
> >
> > "What  I  think," said Piglet, "is I think we'll go
> > and see
> > Christopher Robin, only he won't be there, so we
> > can't."
> >
> > "Let's go and see everybody," said Pooh. "Because
> > when you've  been
> > walking in the wind for miles, and you suddenly go
> > into somebody's
> > house, and he says, 'Hallo, Pooh,  you're  just in
> > time for a little
> > smackerel of something,' and you are, then it's what
> > I call a
> > Friendly Day."
> >
> > Piglet  thought  that  they  ought to have a Reason
> > for going to see
> > everybody, like Looking for Small or Organizing an
> > Expotition, if
> > Pooh could think of something
> >
> > Pooh could.
> >
> > "We'll go because it's Thursday," he said,  "and
> > we'll go to wish
> > everybody a Very Happy Thursday. Come on, Piglet."
> >
> > They  got  up;  and  when  Piglet  had  sat down
> > again, because he
> > didn't know the wind was so  strong,  and  had  been
> > helped  up by
> > Pooh, they started off. They went to Pooh's house
> > first, and luckily
> > Pooh was at home just as they got there,  so he
> > asked  them in, and
> > they had some, and then they went on to Kanga's
> > house, holding on to
> > each other,  and  shouting  "Isn't it?"  and
> > "What?"  and "I can't
> > hear." By the time they got to Kanga's house they
> > were so buffeted
> > that they stayed to  lunch. Just at first it seemed
> > rather cold
> > outside afterwards, so they pushed on to Rabbit's as
> > quickly as they
> > could.
> >
> > "We've  come  to  wish you a Very Happy Thursday,"
> > said Pooh, when
> > he had gone in and out once or twice  just  to  make
> > sure that he
> > could get  out again.
> >
> > "Why,  what's  going  to  happen  on  Thursday?"
> > asked Rabbit, and
> > when Pooh had explained, and Rabbit, whose life was
> > made up of
> > Important Things, said,  "Oh,  I  thought you'd
> > really  come  about
> > something," they sat down for a little . . . and
> > by-and-by Pooh and
> > Piglet went on again. The wind was behind them now,
> > so they didn't
> > have to shout.
> >
> >          "Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully.
> >
> >          "Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever."
> >
> >          "And he has Brain."
> >
> >          "Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit has Brain."
> >
> >          There was a long silence.
> >
> >          "I  suppose,"  said  Pooh,  "that  that's
> > why he never
> > understands anything."
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