This was the meaning behind my vocation: when I was grown-up, I would take my own childhood in hand again and make of it a faultless work of art. I saw myself as the basis of my own apotheosis.
apotheosis /əˌpäTHēˈōsəs/ I. noun — [usu. in sing.] 1. the highest point in the development of something; culmination or climax • his appearance as Hamlet was the apotheosis of his career. 2. the elevation of someone to divine status; deification. – origin late 16th cent.: via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek apotheōsis, from apotheoun ‘make a god of,’ from apo ‘from’ + theos ‘god.’
