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Writing: i certainly do rewrite my central myth in every book, and would never read or trust any writer who did not also do so.
-Northrop Frye
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Writing: I Certainly Do Rewrite My Central

Northrop Frye
Writing: i certainly do rewrite my central myth in every book, and would never read or trust any writer who did not also do so.
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