Reinvention

She believes in constant reinvention.

There have been various reinventions of the wheel.

Chicago was home to the reinvention of the harmonica from tiny dime store toy to amplified and distorted Mississippi sax.

Personal reinventions fail partly for the obvious reasons: you set your goals too high; or your existing obligations at work or home get in the way; or you find (who could have imagined it?) that the unimpressive level of self-discipline you’ve demonstrated for your entire life until this moment can’t magically be tripled overnight.

Etzler was a follower of the wonkish French utopian Charles Fourier, who promised that the scientific reinvention of nature would transmute the saltwater into lemonade.