{"id":1746,"date":"2009-09-05T15:37:42","date_gmt":"2009-09-05T19:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=1746"},"modified":"2009-09-05T15:37:42","modified_gmt":"2009-09-05T19:37:42","slug":"query-alphabet-of-forms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2009\/09\/05\/query-alphabet-of-forms\/","title":{"rendered":"Query: Alphabet of Forms?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1751\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/09\/7days-114x300.png\" alt=\"7days\" width=\"114\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/09\/7days-114x300.png 114w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/09\/7days.png 228w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 114px) 100vw, 114px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A number of Frye\u2019s books now housed in the <a href=\"http:\/\/vicu.utoronto.ca\/fryecentre\/\" target=\"_blank\">Frye Collection<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vicu.utoronto.ca\/site4.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Victoria University<\/a> have laid in a small sheet or card on which Frye constructed a table of twenty-six lines, beginning with the seven-letter sequences \u201cy o u a u o y,\u201d \u201cy o u b u o y,\u201d \u201cy o u c u o y\u201d and continuing through the alphabet to \u201cy o u z u o y.\u201d\u00a0 Occasionally he made one of these grids with the \u201cy\u201d omitted, making a five-letter sequence (\u201co u a u o,\u201d o u b u o,\u201d etc.), and in at least one case there is a chart with only three letters in the twenty-six line column: \u201cu a u,\u201d \u201cu b u,\u201d and so on.\u00a0 The grids are almost always incomplete: one or more of the slots will be blank, the initial letter having been omitted.\u00a0 Some of the grids have the letter \u201ca\u201d added to the right and left sides.\u00a0 There are dozens of these mysterious palindromic sequences, and they can be found as well scattered throughout Frye\u2019s notebooks and other manuscripts in the Frye papers.\u00a0 Might a blogger out there know what this \u201calphabet of forms\u201d is all about?\u00a0 Might it have some connection to the secret name of the seven-day week that <a href=\"http:\/\/homes.ukoln.ac.uk\/~lispjh\/graves\/\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Graves<\/a> deciphers in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_White_Goddess\" target=\"_blank\">The White Goddess<\/a><\/em> or to one of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialfiction.org\/?n=336\" target=\"_blank\">Graves\u2019s other alphabet riddles<\/a>? 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