Humor In The First Session By Robert Farrar Capon

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“Together with a knife, board, table, and chair, you are the constituents of a place in the highest sense of the world. This is a session, a meeting, a society of things” (Capon, 11). The meaning Robert Capon was trying to get across was, no matter how small things may be we can always see the presence of God. He gave us these treasures on earth, so that we may be able to cherish them and be able to experience Him through it. Capon talks about how man was created in God’s image, if God looks at his creation as what it was meant to be, then as men our vision should be the same. Robert Farrar Capon’s use of humor in “The First Session” was affective because it described the reasoning of why we should pay attention to the simplest things in life.…show more content…
He tells us to cut it once and examine the colors again. We see some of his humor come thought when he says, “Structurally, the onion is not a ball, but a nested set of fingers within fingers, each thrust up from the base though the center of the one before it” (14). He uses this to paint a picture in your mind about when you get past the physical appearance and open something up, you realize that it is more complex. Next, the smell. It is a burning odor flowing from the onion that was cut and placed in front of you. Capon talks about how we are to reflect on the smell, even for a short while. Taking in all the onion has to offer because when we examine it the onion has a soul. “Reflect finally what a soul the onion must have, if it boasts such juices” (15). Capon meaning is that without water nothing can have a soul. So, if the onion is releasing these juices there must be more to it then just an ingredient. He further expands the complexity of the onion by talking about the inner and outer membrane. By separating the two membranes, we can see how they both give off new light. Once separated, the first membrane we see is thin, translucent, and can be easily removed. Whereas, the outer is thinner, almost transparent and even more tightly stuck together

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