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Since I have been religiously reading these newsletters with pleasure, I thought I should throw out a B-comment at some point. Imaginative vision may be distinguished from ideology but not disentangled from it. In the West, the myth of democracy, the myth of the American way of life, or even, the myth of the madrassa referred to directly in this newsletter, come advertised with the images as packaging and emblems. And then, often, we get a professional wrestling match between right wing and left wing versions of these which paints the other side with the demonic version of itself.

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So instead of plot and probability (Aristotle's eikos) we now have character and relatability.

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So instead of plot and probability, we now have character and relevance (not a favorite word for Frye). Did he ever hear of "relatedness"?

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