I have been reading an odd but fascinating and delightful book, The Poetics of Reverie: Childhood, Language, and the Cosmos by Gaston Bachelard, a name that readers may note has been popping up in these newsletters lately. After all, how can you not want to read a book called
I think that Frye is right when he characterizes the arts as engaged in a mental conquest. Later in the same book on page 251 in my copy he calls it all out war. Sinister laws— like the Espionage Act— and nauseating laws— like Affirmative Action— should be set ablaze in the town square by works of satire. Similarly science is a war to hunt down error—like the lie still widely held and promoted that the Covid vaccines prevented transmission of the virus—and free knowledge from obfuscation and shallow contempt and material gain.
I think that Frye is right when he characterizes the arts as engaged in a mental conquest. Later in the same book on page 251 in my copy he calls it all out war. Sinister laws— like the Espionage Act— and nauseating laws— like Affirmative Action— should be set ablaze in the town square by works of satire. Similarly science is a war to hunt down error—like the lie still widely held and promoted that the Covid vaccines prevented transmission of the virus—and free knowledge from obfuscation and shallow contempt and material gain.