"I'm not saying that there's nothing new in literature: I'm saying that everything is new, and yet recognizably the same kind of thing as the old, just as a new baby is a genuinely new individual, although it's also an example of something very common, which is human beings, and also it's lineally you descended from the first human beings there ever were. And what, you ask, is the point of saying that? " (page 23)
Northrop Frye is completly right, I can not agree with him more on this subject. Everything is new to someone that has not read or tried it before and although it may be old for some humans it is new for others. Therefore everything is new for any human because no one has read everybook or played every sports game, so everyone is always learning.
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