Preserve substance; modify form; know the difference.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The well-known fact that the form of a specific substance, e.g. water, and hence its properties can alter without a change in composition was disposed of by the formal view that a physical, not a chemical, process was involved.
Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral.
I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of the essence of substance in general.
If you write an original, it's like you went in and dug a well, and you hit oil. But an adaptation, it's like the oil well's on fire, and they bring you in to put the fire out and get it working again - or something like that.
As soon as you've written it, you're thinking about how it can move into different mediums.
Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time.
I think you've got to keep it simple, keep it fresh. Stay away from all that processed stuff, read the labels.
One thing that you can't fake is chemistry.
Chemicals are really simple. You mix a couple things together and sell it for more than the materials cost.
You just can't fake chemistry.