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“ Our country has shown a lack of will to resist its own disintegration .. . Canada is practically the only country left in the world which is a pure colony colonial in psychology as well as in mercantile economics. ”

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The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his job is not to describe nature, but to show you a world completely absorbed and possessed by the human mind.

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Northrop Frye Imagination Literature Metaphor Writing

For the Bible there is nothing numinous, no holy or divine presence, within nature itself. Nature is a fellow creature of man.

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Northrop Frye Devine Nature

(U)derneath all the complexity of human life that uneasy stare at an alien nature is still haunting us, and the problem of surmounting it is still with us.

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Northrop Frye Nature Self Unity

Americans like to make money, Canadians like to audit it. I know no other country where accountants have a higher social and moral status.

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Northrop Frye Accountant American Canadian Money