“In secular psychodevelopmental terms, an epiphany is a sudden, life-changing realisation, often one that catalyses a person’s emotional maturation. The person, in one blinding flash, ‘grows up’, ‘comes of age.’ ‘Put[s] away childish things.’ Releases illusions gone moist and rank from a grip of years’ duration. Becomes for good or ill, a citizen of reality.”

— From ‘Adult World’ in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace.

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