Many people – in the absence of a total or complete personality – find
they are adept in convincing themselves of who they ‘are’. Usually this
persona continues on for so long that it becomes for all intents and
purposes ‘real’ and any chance of real self-discovery is lost forever.
The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to
that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque. John Ruskin
