But what I love most about the above epigraph is that Agee wrote it for his prep - school
magazine at the age
of sixteen; it was clear to the sixteen - year -
old Agee that we would be watching von Stroheim and Murnau a
hundred years later.
She takes out letters, some
of them more than a
hundred years
old, photographs, postcards, newspaper clippings,
magazines, and leafs through them, she thumbs through the pile
of lifeless paper and then sorts it yet again, this time on the floor, or on the desk by the window.