{"id":27250,"date":"2011-10-25T13:00:41","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T17:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=27250"},"modified":"2011-10-25T13:00:41","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T17:00:41","slug":"frye-alert-things-i-wanna-show-my-girlfriend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2011\/10\/25\/frye-alert-things-i-wanna-show-my-girlfriend\/","title":{"rendered":"Frye Alert: &#8220;Things I Wanna Show My Girlfriend&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27252\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/10\/norriehelen.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"417\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/10\/norriehelen.png 723w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/10\/norriehelen-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 417px) 100vw, 417px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of the things the blogger at <a href=\"http:\/\/thingsiwannashowmygirlfriend.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/08\/the-correspondence-of-northrop-frye-and-helen-kemp\/\" target=\"_blank\">thingsiwannashowmygirlfriend<\/a> is the Frye-Kemp correspondence. This paragraph from one of the letters from Frye to Helen in 1932 caught his attention:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Denied the supreme satisfaction of the bed-sheets, he sublimates himself in letter-sheets. I carried on this literary flirtation with you some years ago, in the first summer I was home and we corresponded. But since I have grown to love you so immeasurably more than I did then, or could then, the ideal lady at the other end of the postal service has become a part of myself, and when I write I am painfully conscious only of your absence. Hence these awkward, stammering, whining, almost illiterate letters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things the blogger at thingsiwannashowmygirlfriend is the Frye-Kemp correspondence. This paragraph from one of the letters from Frye to Helen in 1932 caught his attention: Denied the supreme satisfaction of the bed-sheets, he sublimates himself in letter-sheets. 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