GRGR(25) - The Grace of Pigs

[HenryMu]

He marketh the fall of everything; if so, there is no distinction drawn,
i.e. nothing marked. See the story of The Tinder Box, where the soldier's
house was marked with an X, so the dog marked all the houses with an X. (If
he's so magic, why didn't he just wipe of the X?)

Keep cool, but care.

AsB4,

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----- Original Message -----
From: "David Morris" <fqmorris at hotmail.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 1:52 PM
Subject: GRGR(25) - The Grace of Pigs


> ----------
> (555.11)  They were good company. [...] ...possessed by innocence they
> couldn't lose...
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> (Psalm 44:22) Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are
> counted as sheep [or pigs] for the slaughter.
> ----------
>
> Though preterite by their inescapable nature, and more so by the "company"
> they keep, these same qualities bestow upon William Slothrop's pigs a
> certain nobility in the eyes of their destroyer-companion, William.  Like
> Slothrop with his trees, again we have the ruminations of the killer about
> the nature of his prey, and an attempt at a reconciliation with the nature
> of existence together, Preterite and Elite.
>
> _On Preterition_ is William's reconciliation with the "necessary evil" of
> the cosmos, which is filled with hordes of Preterite throughout history,
and
> only a handful of Elite spared from destruction.  In essence William's
> reasoning is a reconciliation of God with Justice, because God's ass was
> hanging out there exposed, and it wasn't all shiny-bright, no matter what
> Moses saw.  With _On Preterition_ William hands God some clothes to cover
> himself.
>
> David Morris
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