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Northrop Frye
Canadian
Critic
Born:
Jul 14
,
1912
Died:
Jan 23
,
1991
Ancient
Culture
Money
Religion
Service
Understanding
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The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.
Northrop Frye
People
King
Stupid
Sheep
Back
Easily
Ancient
Fact
Particular
Like
Perhaps
Most
Metaphor
Due
Shepherd
His
Affectionate
Goes
Egypt
Human
Gregarious
Being
Convention
Formed
Use
Societies
Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I know no other country where accountants have a higher social and moral status.
Northrop Frye
Money
Country
Other
Moral
Status
Higher
Like
Know
Make
Audit
Accountants
Canadians
American
Where
Social
The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.
Northrop Frye
Truth
Ego
Dangerous
Stronger
Goodness
Beauty
Temptation
More
Pursuit
Because
Nonsense
Than
Affords
Much
Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.
Northrop Frye
Service
Religion
Culture
Understanding
Approach
Worship
Destroy
Object
Tendency
Idolatry
Intellectual
Replace
Essential
Forms
Present
It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.
Northrop Frye
Culture
Possible
Morally
Both
Acceptable
Limits
Essence
Transcends
Naturally
Imaginative
The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.
Northrop Frye
Man
Book
Machine
Invented
Most
Efficient
Ever
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