61. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men | James Agee | Walker Evans Let Us Now Praise Famous Men james agee Walker Evans. http://www.ralphmag.org/AU/famous-men.html

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men James Agee Walker Evans (Houghton Mifflin/Mariner) In his introduction to Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Agee tells us that what he has done is not art, certainly not Art, don't call it art. He tells us it is something else again - perhaps a disease, perhaps a fury, and if we are to understand it, we are to put Beethoven's Seventh or Schubert's C-Major Symphony on the phonograph and "turn it up loud" and then "get down on the floor" and "jam your ear as close into the loudspeaker as you can get it and stay there, breathing as lightly as possible, and not moving, and neither eating nor smoking nor drinking." You won't hear it nicely. If it hurts you, be glad of it. As near as you will ever get, you are inside the music; not only inside it, you are it; your body is no longer your shape and substance, it is the shape and substance of the music. This, he wants us to know, is how we are to understand his work. Let us now praise famous men and our fathers that begat us. The quotation is from Sirach - also known as Ecclesiasticus - one of the Apocrypha of the Old Testament. The irony of the words is obvious and biting, for Agee is describing, minutely, the least famous, the poorest of the poor, the men (and women, and children) who lived in and around central Alabama in the middle of the depression, in the summer of 1936.

62. James Rufus Agee's Quotes @ PhotoQuotes.com agee, james Rufus james RUFUS agee 1909 – 1955 American novelist, screenwriter, journalist, poet, james Rufus agee. Send the Quote in Email http://photoquotes.com/ShowQuotes.aspx?id=12&name=Agee,James Rufus

63. The Political Graveyard: Index To Politicians: Afan To Aieta agee, james G. (b. 1940) — of Muskegon, Muskegon County, Mich. Born in Detroit, Wayne County, Mich., July 10, 1940. Democrat. http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/afan-aieta.html

Questions? Return to The Political Graveyard main page Index to Politicians: Afan to Aieta AFAN: See also Francisco Afan Delgado Affeld, William C., Jr. Kobe Presumed deceased Burial location unknown Affeldt, George A. Milwaukee County , Wis. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Wisconsin, Presumed deceased Burial location unknown AFFHOLDER: See also Weldon Osborne Yeager Afflick, Donald Bronx County , N.Y. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, ; member of Democratic National Committee from New York , 2004. Still living as of 2004. AFFLIS: See also Margaret Afflis Johnson Afflis, Margaret A. Carroll County , Ind. Born in Delphi, Carroll County , Ind. Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from Indiana, ; member of Indiana Democratic State Central Committee , 1932-44; candidate for U.S. Representative from Indiana 2nd District, 1946. Female Presbyterian Presumed deceased Burial location unknown AFRICANUS: See also Scipio Africanus Jones Afros, Jacob L. Kings County , N.Y. Socialist. Candidate for

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