Man creates what he calls history as a screen to conceal the workings of the apocalypse from himself. - Northrop Frye

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Man creates what he calls history as a screen to conceal the workings of the apocalypse from himself.

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About Northrop Frye

Herman Northrop Frye (14 July 1912 – 23 January 1991) was a Canadian literary critic and literary theorist, considered one of the most influential of the 20th century.

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A purely individualized myth is an obsession, sometimes a psychosis. A purely socialized myth is an ideology, which sooner or later also becomes obsessive or psychotic. A myth that has either the direct current of transcendence or the alternating current of imagination rises clear of this grisly antithesis. (2:716)

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