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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">how do we reconcile?...</SPAN></div>
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<DIV style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 0; MARGIN: 5px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0px; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px" class=hr contenteditable="false" readonly="true"></DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> David Morris <fqmorris@gmail.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> "bandwraith@aol.com" <bandwraith@aol.com> <BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Cc:</SPAN></B> "pynchon-l@waste.org" <pynchon-l@waste.org> <BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Thursday, January 30, 2014 10:29 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: Resisting Grace<BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>So if we accept that sloth ain't good, we next have to ask, Sloth versus What?
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<DIV>We all need breaks now and then. Sloth must mean taking too many breaks. Some one behind that word holds a whip.<SPAN></SPAN><BR clear=none>
<DIV id=yiv6449813784yqtfd20933 class=yiv6449813784yqt4538358876><BR clear=none>On Wednesday, January 29, 2014, <<A href="mailto:bandwraith@aol.com" shape=rect rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:bandwraith@aol.com">bandwraith@aol.com</A>> wrote:<BR clear=none>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class=yiv6449813784gmail_quote>"Unless the state of our souls becomes once more a subject of serious<BR clear=none>concern, there is little question that Sloth will continue to evolve<BR clear=none>away from its origins in the long-ago age of faith and miracle, when<BR clear=none>daily life really was the Holy Ghost visibly at work and time was a<BR clear=none>story, with a beginning, middle and end. Belief was intense, engagement<BR clear=none>deep and fatal. The Christian God was near. Felt. Sloth -- defiant<BR clear=none>sorrow in the face of God's good intentions -- was a deadly sin.<BR clear=none><BR clear=none><BR clear=none>Perhaps the future of Sloth will lie in sinning against what now seems<BR clear=none>increasingly to define us -- technology. Persisting in Luddite sorrow,<BR clear=none>despite technology's good intentions, there we'll sit with our
heads in<BR clear=none>virtual reality, glumly refusing to be absorbed in its idle, disposable<BR clear=none>fantasies, even those about superheroes of Sloth back in Sloth's good<BR clear=none>old days, full of leisurely but lethal misadventures with the ruthless<BR clear=none>villains of the Acedia Squad."<BR clear=none><BR clear=none><BR clear=none><BR clear=none><BR clear=none>-<BR clear=none>Pynchon-l / <A href="http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l" shape=rect rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l</A><BR clear=none></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV><BR><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></div></body></html>