Our negative and odious references to the animal abound. If one follows the trial of the kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart by Brian David Mitchell, one will read that the prosecutor called Mitchell a “predatory chameleon”; some also called him a “religious chameleon”. A skunk (a mean, contemptible person) that he is—my bad, skunk (my apology to skunk).
I bet chameleons would regret their ability to change colors, giving the ever-benevolent men and women to exploit and to bad mouth them. (Katy took this photo of lizard in the petrified forest—agate—on our trip to Arizona and New Mexico in 2009.)
I never read Anton Chekhov’s A Chameleon, in which the protagonist is a police superintendent, who shamelessly changed his reports about a crime for personal advancement, ignoring the interest and justice of the victim. Literary figures are also unkind and insensitive to the animals.
The left photo of chameleon is my cousin, 英毅, took in Socotra (part of Yemen), an otherworldly island on Earth.
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