Thursday, 25 June 2015

Learning something impact my writing...

Just saw this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL73AE5yD_w
It is how the caterpillar turn into a butterfly.  By chance, they didn't go into graphic real picture.  Must be disgusting.  I will resume the essence of the transformation briefly: the caterpillar, in the cocoon, turn into purée and reconstitue itself again in a butterfly.  Disgusting enough for you?  I will never see a butterfly the same way from now on.  It is a bit of a bummer that a so beautiful and delicate being can go through a brutal process.  Makes me remember an episode of an old twilight zone: "Eye of the Beholder" also know under the title "The Private World Of Darkness"In that episode, the norm is being ugly.  The main character tries to get as everybody through surgery.  It doesn't work so, at the end, a guy like her comes.  He will bring her to a village where everybody are like them.  I know there isn't much between the two.  In both my reaction and the episode of twilight zone, there is a reaction.  I am not used to the process of the metamorphosis into a butterfly.  In the "Eye of the Beholder", the doctor and nurses look surprised when surgery failed.  They probably hoped for a success.  In both cases, there is a reaction and it is not a positive one.

I feel a bit shaken because I had written something involving a cocoon and a metamorphosis.  It is for an important character.  It is part of the text.  There are other like that main character but they have already gone through the process.  I know it is fiction and that I can do what I want.  I wanted to show there was pain before and after the cocoon part.  I think the video will force me to see a different angle.  Of course, I don't want my character to turn into mush before being reconstituted.  It would take too much time anyway.  I now will have to think a little further on this point.  What I though before was akin a werewolf, as they shapeshift.  It just would happen in a protective casing.  What I just learned force me to see on another angle, to consider other possibilities.  I will kept the cocoon part, some part of shapeshift and there will be some pains in the body before and after the transformation.  I am thinking to add something to set it appart from other fictions.  For sure, I won't go into dissolution of the body for reconstitution.  It will go too far if I do that.  Thinking of that, I may put some stem cell.  Maybe those who transform may have some reserve of it.  It will restructure part of the body and manifacture others that weren't there before.

I didn't expected this situation just by learning something new...

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