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.
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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 #42
I never liked playing Truth or Dare. I always thought it’s an excuse to ask or do stupid crap.
Day/Page/Sketch #33
I had a dream, which was not all a dream.
The bright sun was extinguish’d, and the stars
Did wander darkling in the eternal space,
Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth
Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air.
Day/Page/Sketch #30
Question to Jockum Nordström: Do you always complete the work you start, or do you sometimes leave work unfinished?
I think you’re in good shape when you have a lot of things unfinished. That way there is always room to go on with your work, somewhere to take off from. Still, I can’t leave a project before it has a little bit of a soul. It must have a soul before I leave it alone.
Day/Page/Sketch #29
“Porky pie” in British English means a trivial lie, like in “he told a porky pie about eating his spinach.” Somehow I thought “porky pie” meant something else.
Day/Page/Sketch #27
I have an unpleasant memory as a kid of a family member that tried to force me to eat sardines, and the more she tried, the less I wanted anything to do with them. She was, in fact, bulling me to cave to her commands. It was awful.
The Havisham Hour 