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Extraordinary Discourse 004

Literature continues in society the tradition of myth-making, and myth-making has a quality that Levi-Strauss calls bricolage , a putting together of bits and pieces of whatever comes to hand. Long before Levi-Strauss, T.S. Eliot in an essay on Blake uses practically the same image, speaking of Blake's resourceful Robinson Crusoe method of scrambling together a system of thought out of the odds and ends of his reading... I soon realized that Blake was a typical poet in this regard. Northrop Frye, intro. to The Great Code