Buildung

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  • Bildung: (German) (1) education; (2) civilization, culture; (3) picture (literally, "formation" "shaping")
  • dung: excrement
  • build|dung → suggests creation and waste (generation and destruction) in one word
  • piled ... dung: the kitchen midden (rubbish tip) in the backyard of HCE's tavern → John Shakespeare's illegal dunghill (sterquinarium) in Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, for which he was fined
  • Bildungsroman - (German) "novel of formation" From Wikipedia: The Bildungsroman is regarded by some as a variation on the concept of the monomyth.