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The Shapeshifter
I was brought up in a little Lebanese bubble with my mum and dad, and I speak Arabic to them. And I was also brought up as an English boy in a school. That double life meant I didn't really feel totally English or totally Lebanese. So that makes you a shapeshifter. What does that mean? Well, there are figures in mythology who exist on boundaries. Mercury is the wing messenger of the gods, and he exists half in the human world and half in the divine world. But there's a place there that's a border between two categories. The way Mercury makes himself manifest is by catching your interest. There's a pattern to the things that catch your interest. Some