Today, metamorphosis by chiasmus—the reversal-of-process caused by increasing its speed, scope, or size — is visible everywhere for anyone to see. The chiasmus of speed up is slowdown. Perhaps first noted by ancient Chinese sages in I Ching or The Book of Changes, the history of chiastic patterns is traced through classical Greek and Hebrew literature by Nils W. Lund in Chiasmus in the New Testament.