ROTFL. I am using “literally” in its original sense: 1. in the literal or strict sense: What does the word mean literally? 2. in a literal manner; word for word: to translate literally. …because these pages
uh, metaphor, is that once the butterfly is out of the chrysalis no trace of the caterpillar remains. In my unscientific sampling of memoirs and so on I am more familiar with “divided self” imagery, where the new self does dominate the new linguistic context but the old self still ...
The interest of American people for the opera led some composers, such as G. Puccini (1858–1924), to write original operas inspired by the American tradition, such as Madama Butterfly (1904), Fanciulla del West (1914). The first representations of the latter one and the following Gianni ...