My grandfather, who had reared me, had the sagacity and great good restraint not to say, “I told you so.” or remind me about the well-known Bildungsroman he had recommended to me when I was much younger, written about his own difficult coming of age (although he appeared incognito in the story), when I yawped about finding direction for my own troubled life.

"YAWP!" squawked Norcroft loudly--for I had just hurled a hardbound copy of Torvald Gormstein's Scooby Award-winning Bildungsroman The Education and Development of a Young Protagonist at his head, knocking the bishop's mitre from it and stripping him of his incognito status: no longer was he the sagacious "Monsignor Osbaldo Godiva," now he was simply Norcroft van Rijn, nefarious dwarvish art-thief, amateur clarinet-player, and three-time hopscotch champion of the greater Rotterdam area.