Playing in the Dark

[Otto]

"The desire for freedom is preceeded by oppression; a yearning for God's law
is born of the detestation of human license
and corruption; the glamor of riches is in thrall to poverty, hunger, and
debt."

Someone has to explain, or better translate, this sentence to me. What's
meant by "human license" here?

Otto

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Monroe" <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2002 8:36 PM
Subject: Playing in the Dark


> From Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and
> the Literary Imagination (New York: Vintage, 1993
> [Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1992]), Ch. 2, "Romancing
> the Shadow," pp. 31-59 ...
>


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