The Educated Imagination

Literature encourages tolerance - bigots and fanatics seldom have any use for the arts, because they're so preoccupied with their beliefs and actions that they can't see them also as possibilities.

-Northrop Frye, writer (1912-1991)

This quote was posted this morning on the Jackson Browne message board I frequent. It's from the 1964 book The Educated Imagination. I started reading that book a few days ago because it kept coming up in some of my favorite blogs. Then I checked my email, and someone mentioned the book in her email to me. It's really eerie how that book keeps coming up lately. I don't know what it all means, but I guess I'll do the only thing I know how to do. I'll take notes as I read the book and post my notes. Maybe something will come of it??