Being soaped, kneaded, toweled, thumped, harrowed, and rasped with water-butt. I had to check what water-butt means: a butt (large barrel like container) set on end to contain water especially to store rainwater. PHEW!
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Day/Page/Sketch #52
A bildungsroman is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist of a story from youth to adulthood. Read coming-of-age story. Great Expectations is a bildungsroman.
Day/Page/Sketch #51
Self-consciousness is an acute sense of self-awareness. It is a preoccupation with oneself, as opposed to the philosophical state of self-awareness, which is the awareness that one exists as an individual being. According to Schopenhauer, man can, through self-consciousness, make a choice between affirming or denying the will.
Day/Page/Sketch #50
Your moment of truth is here. Move slowly away from what you no longer want. So be careful! No one is indispensable. Take a couple of deep breaths before you shoot your mouth off. Be silent and see what comes toward you.
Day/Page/Sketch #49
According to the anthropologist Alfred-Louis Kroeber, the female silhouette regularly revolves through one of three basic shapes—bustle, scabbard, bell.
Day/Page/Sketch #48
That’s right, honey.
Day/Page/Sketch #47
Hammering smoke: I see lots of people doing it all the time.
Day/Page/Sketch #46
Sometimes it seems hard to believe that Great Expectations was written in 1860. The letter Pip writes to Joe described in this page is so Dada. On a side note, I have a soft spot for blackboards.
Day/Page/Sketch #45
Our hero went to school one hour a day, and his teacher slept through the lessons. No surprise that he “bramble-bushed” the Alphabet. A bramble is any rough, (usually wild) tangled prickly shrub, specifically the blackberry bush.
Day/Page/Sketch #44
Charles Dickens was obsessed with the idea of a gentleman, what it meant in Victorian society, who was part of it. Being a gentleman for Dickens wasn’t as much about money as it was about style, manners, and knowledge. I truly think this still holds today.
Day/Page/Sketch #43
The M.C. in M.C. Escher stands for Maurits Cornelis. He was Dutch and he did the best tessellations I have ever seen.
Day/Page/Sketch #42
I never liked playing Truth or Dare. I always thought it’s an excuse to ask or do stupid crap.
Day/Page/Sketch #41
“Look at the circles under my eyes. I haven’t slept in weeks!” -Cowardly Lion
Day/Page/Sketch #40
Author Philip Larkin doesn’t like the whole Dickens Method. He considers Dickens an entertainer, not to be regarded as a real writer at all; not even a real novelist. Many scholars describe Larkin’s work as lowered sights and diminished expectations: that makes total sense.
Day/Page/Sketch #39
“I’m sorry to say, I’ve eat your pie.”
The Havisham Hour 