{"id":4032,"date":"2009-10-15T08:52:57","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T12:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=4032"},"modified":"2009-10-15T08:52:57","modified_gmt":"2009-10-15T12:52:57","slug":"thanks-to-clayton-chrusch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2009\/10\/15\/thanks-to-clayton-chrusch\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks to Clayton Chrusch"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"blake-the-last-supper\"<\/p>\n

Fearful Symmetry<\/em> was the very last of Frye\u2019s major works that I read, and by the time I\u00a0 first read it, I had re-read just about everything else a few times over. I don\u2019t know why I put it off for so long. I rationalized\u00a0that it is\u00a0a youthful work (even though it is clearly not that), a mere precursor to Anatomy<\/em> where the \u201creal work\u201d begins, and a study narrowly focused on a still somewhat obscure poet. So, predictably enough, when I finally came to read it, it blew open all the doors and sent my carefully arranged mental furniture flying. It\u2019s a book that still haunts me. Fearful Symmetry<\/em> possesses all of Frye\u2019s runic power to summon up the fearsome but benign\u00a0authority of the Magus\/prophet: not, as he says elsewhere, the oppressive mystery that conceals, but the liberating mystery that reveals.<\/p>\n

I am therefore very grateful that Clayton Chrusch has undertaken to provide us with a weekly summary<\/a>, chapter by chapter. By the time I reach the end of each installment, I\u2019m a little breathless with excitement. Such is the power of the book that Clayton\u2019s lucid exposition effortlessly taps into it. I look forward to his next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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