04 August 2003

Perfect

These words were written on a loose sheet of paper written by Northrop Frye, the eminent Canadian literary critic. I'm hoping one day I'll be able to use them. ;-)
STATEMENT FOR THE DAY OF MY DEATH:

“The twentieth century saw an amazing development of scholarship and criticism in the humanities, carried out by people who were more intelligent, better trained, had more languages, had a better sense of proportion, and were infinitely more accurate scholars and competent professional men than I. I had genius. No one else in the field known to me had quite that.”

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