Last line

Posted on November 9, 2004 by sheila

Our talk drained rather quickly off into silence and we lay thinking, analyzing, remembering, in the human artist’s sense praying, chiefly over matters of the present and of that immediate past which was a part of the present; and each of these matters had in that time the extreme clearness, and edge, and honor, which I shall now try to give you; until at length we too fell asleep.

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2 Responses to Last line

  1. red says:
    November 9, 2004 at 7:20 pm

    Clue:

    The author of this unbelievably good book is one of my favorites.

    His works of film criticism are STILL un-matched in their brilliance. He wrote some essays on Charlie Chaplin which have to be read to be believed.

    For this book … he teamed up with … another famous famous artist (of another medium) … and … this was the result.

  2. Chrees says:
    November 10, 2004 at 12:31 pm

    Ah, the clue gives it away. James Agee. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.

    And you’re right. His film criticisms are pure gold. There was a good biography that came out on Agee in the mid ’80s.

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