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To: Greg or e who wrote (41406)	9/11/2013 1:18:58 PM
From: average joe	Respond to of 69300

Margaret Atwood talked about the bible and Northrop Frye "In honours English I studied with one of the great literary-Biblical scholars, whose name was Northrop Frye, who every year taught a course called ‘The Bible as Literature’, in which he said ‘this is a book; here’s how it works as a book’. So that’s just something that I knew quite a lot about. But also, people thought in about 1975 that religion was over, and it was no longer relevant to our modern world. I have never believed that, because I believe that religion is a subset of the narrative programme that we come with. And if people are not ascribing to a, quotes, “established religion” they’re doing something else. Could it be worshiping the stock market, could it be horoscopes, could it be channelling the spirit world, whatever that might actually mean? They’re doing something; they have some relationship with the unseen world. That took the form in some portions of the twentieth century of Freudianism: you can’t see your unconscious –it’s invisible! Or Jungianism: you can’t see the archetypes! But they’re out there. Scratch anybody and you’re going to find some belief system that is not entirely rational, because we are not entirely rational beings. Sorry to reveal this to the waiting world." list.co.uk margaretatwood.ca