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| Friday, May 1, 2009 7:26AM | | | | Original Inspiration - James Agee | Tags: James Agee, Let Us Know Praise Famous Men, Dwight Garner, David Denby, inspiration, Walker Evans
| | | I was, I think, fourteen, perhaps fifteen when someone I can't recall handed me a book, called Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. The 'someone' was a woman, older than I, and I vaguely recall we were sitting in a kitchen, drinking tea. I have an image of wooden floors, a pot-bellied stove, sagging bookshelves, and a red and white checkered plastic table cloth. I can't for the life of me imagine where this might have been, or who this woman might have been and I suspect I am superimposing the scenes and settings of the book onto the moment when I discovered it. Nonetheless, it was a moment that changed my life.
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