\u201cYou\u2019re never telling me that those are your own ideas about romance and the sentimental novel and the desiring self?\u201d
\n\u201cThe desiring self is Northrop Frye,\u201d she admitted.
\n\u201cYou<\/em> have read Northrop Frye<\/em>?\u201d his voice rose in pitch like a jet engine.
\n\u201cWell, not read, exactly. Somebody told me about it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re: Cheryl\u2019s reading of Frye, that is something I had forgotten.\u00a0 Thanks, Bob, for reminding me of this exchange from David Lodge’s Small World: \u201cYou\u2019re never telling me that those are your own ideas about romance and the sentimental novel and the desiring self?\u201d \u201cThe desiring self is Northrop Frye,\u201d she admitted. \u201cYou have read […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"yoast_head":"\n
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