Playing in the Dark

[barbara100 at jps.net]

"License" would indicate freedom.  When you're given license, no one can
stop you.  You're free to go.  Drive, pass, whatever.  In this case it I
think it means license to indulge in the more corruptible aspects of
humanity. Licentious means unrestrained, but it also has a sexual meaning of
promiscuity.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Otto" <ottosell at yahoo.de>
To: "Dave Monroe" <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com>; <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2002 1:01 PM
Subject: Re: Playing in the Dark


> "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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