Northrop Frye Quote

The bedrock of doubt is the total nothingness of death. Death is a leveler, not because everybody dies, but because nobody understands what death means.


Chapter 8, p. 230 - The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (1982)


The bedrock of doubt is the total nothingness of death. Death is a leveler, not because everybody dies, but because nobody understands what death...

The bedrock of doubt is the total nothingness of death. Death is a leveler, not because everybody dies, but because nobody understands what death...

The bedrock of doubt is the total nothingness of death. Death is a leveler, not because everybody dies, but because nobody understands what death...

The bedrock of doubt is the total nothingness of death. Death is a leveler, not because everybody dies, but because nobody understands what death...