from @annakornbluh.bsky.social 's Immediacy -- thinking about the shift from meta- to autofiction as a renewal of northrop frye's cyclical literary seasons -- drift away from maximum fragmentation/irony + toward unity/myth as a swing from Frye's winter/satire + toward comedy/spring pairings
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"Irony descends from the low mimetic: it begins in realism and dispassionate observation. But as it does so, it moves steadily towards myth, and dim outlines of sacrificial rituals and dying gods begin to reappear in it. Our five modes evidently go around in a circle."