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 #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.”
Day/Page/Sketch #38
A critical edition of a book is a regular edition of the book itself with scholarly responses to it and other information useful to better understanding the text. Thanks to a critical edition of Great Expectations I learn what a “miniature windmill” really is.
Day/Page/Sketch #35
Shouting in the Dark is a book of John Bramblitt’s life, his struggles with epilepsy, his race against time as he prepares for complete vision loss, and his determination to find a way out of the engulfing shadows of blindness. It is the story of how he rekindles his capacity for joy, hope, and relationships through painting and teaching art. the book challenges you to rethink your perception of blindness and what it means to truly see.
Day/Page/Sketch #34
An imp is a mythological being similar to a fairy or demon. Imps are usually small and not very attractive. They are often mischievous rather than evil or harmful, much the same as fairies. In fact, they both share the same sense of free spirit and enjoyment of all things fun. Imps are lonely little creatures always in search of human attention.
The Havisham Hour 