James Agee and Walker Evans Entitled Let Us Now Praise Famous Men,
Throughout reading the essay by James Agee and Walker Evans entitled Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, my eye was drawn away from the essay and I began thinking about a couple of different ideas when reading one particular excerpt. In the paragraph it was stated: "Above all else: in God's name don't think of it as Art. Every fury on earth has been absorbed in time, as art, or as religion, or as authority in one form or another. The deadliest blow the enemy of the human soul can strike is to do fury honor. Swift, Blake, Beethoven, Christ, Joyce, Kafka, name me a one who has not been thus castrated. Official acceptance is the one unmistakable symptom that salvation is beaten again. And is the one surest sign of fatal misunderstanding, and is the kiss of Judas." The reason that this particularly caught me eye and took my attention away from the page is because I found two distinct different meanings and questions within this quote. The first meaning and question that I found asking my self from reading this excerpt was; do I feel that official acceptance with Christ (or another religious God) is a misunderstood concept and is not the correct direction for one to go about conducting their everyday life? I also found another meaning within this text, which struck me as odd because I have never read anything that has two distinct understandings. The meaning that arose to me is when you think of something as "art," there is an official acceptance within that meaning of "art." By this I mean that someone somewhere must have said that when you as a person produces something that can be portrayed as "art," you have an official acceptance within that object you created and by this opinion I think "art" is a misunderstood concept in society today.
Now, what I do mean when I say that a person thinks of himself as being officially accepted with Christ (or another person), will it in return be a bad decision or a good decision for that person to direct their every day
Now, what I do mean when I say that a person thinks of himself as being officially accepted with Christ (or another person), will it in return be a bad decision or a good decision for that person to direct their every day