The fundamental job of the imagination in ordinary life...is to produce, out of the society we have to live in, a vision of the society we want to live in. (Northrop Frye)

The fundamental job of the imagination in ordinary life...is to produce, out of the society we have to live in, a vision of the society we want to live in.

Northrop Frye

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