“The Great Code was a silly and sloppy book. It was also a work of very great genius. The point is that genius is not enough. A book worthy of God and of Helen [Frye's wife] must do better than that.”

— Northrop Frye

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Canadian literary critic and literary theorist 1912–1991

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