A self acquires its substance early, and such essays on youthful experience as "Dictionary of Wilno Streets" and "Journey to the West" are the most full-blooded.
Judge William presents marriage as the scene of this transformation, in which, through commitment, the self acquires temporal continuity and, following Hegel, the sensuous is raised to the level of spirit.
Nondescript as a human girl, she swiftly begins to relish the beauty and strength of her horned, red-skinned demonic second self (acquiring a brilliantly hapless Irish fanboy along the way) and enjoy the scope for making mayhem that goes with it.
Given the right conditions and circumstances, the self acquires a personalizing self-apprehension, i.e., it develops into a person and as a person (cf. Husserl 1952, 265).
Imagine if your childhood self acquired all the technological skills to make his or her dreams a reality, without ever growing out of that curious mode of interpreting the world.
It has some knowledge of self, acquired as lymphocytes mature in the thymus, and minimal knowledge of the outside world, transferred from the mother across the placenta.
Self acquired additional drugs such as herbal medicines or vitamins are not recorded in the statistics of the statutory health insurance because they are not covered.
Furthermore, it is also capable to self-acquire context information about the currently available bandwidth-energy resources, so as to quickly adapt to the mobility-induced abrupt changes of the state of the vehicular network, even in the presence of fadings, imperfect context information and intermittent Vehicular-to-Infrastructure connectivity.
And yet, when the overheated prose cools down, Bryson's themes of self-exposure and self-invention acquire a sad dignity.
To describe it another way: when you finish a book, the self you acquired to write it strolls off site.
