ATDTDA - grace

[Monte Davis]

> TRP uses (and defines) the word "grace" on p.42...

That's a *very* nice connection to the GRACE experiment -- utterly
appropriate, whether TRP had it in mind or not.

A few more:

>From my segment coming up -- Merle in the herbal trade with "the silent
women up in the foothills": "They lived for different futures, but they were
each other's unrecognized halves, and what fascination between them did come
to pass was lit up, beyond question, with grace." (70)

Reef trying to scale the towers in Jeshimon: "His attempts soon gathered an
audience, mostly of children, from whom ordinarily he would have drawn
grace, but his amiability had deserted him." (215)

Lake and Deuce in their wedding chapel: "Though scarcely any music ever came
this way, the stray mouth-harpist or whistling drifter who did pass through
the crooked doors found himself elevated into more grace than the acoustics
of his way would have granted him so far." (236)

Dally returns to Chicago: "Somewhere in her head, she'd had this notion that
because the White City had once existed beside the Lake, in Jackson Park, it
would have acted somehow like yeast in bread and caused the entire city to
bloom into some kind of grace." (336)

TRP practically kicks us in the shin with subteen chanteuse Angela (aka
Angel o') Grace (399-401)

Tace on Lake's half-formed hope of changing Deuce: "You think he's so good,"
Tace went on, "just a boy that's lost, that it? and you can bring him back,
all you need to do's love him enough, love your enemy into some kind of
redeemin grace for the both of you? Applesauce, young lady." (482-483)

Quaternioneers out of favor: "Having been inseparable from the rise of the
electromagnetic in human affairs, the Hamiltonian devotees had now, fallen
from grace, come to embody, for the established scientific religion, a
subversive, indeed heretical, faith for whom proscription and exile were too
good." (526)

Lew on his way to investigate the Gas cult: "The first pale husbands of the
evening stood waiting for suburban trains never meant to arrive at any
destination on the rail map-as if, to be brought to any shelter this night,
one would first have to step across into some region of grace hitherto
undefined." (609)

That last one is *so* reminiscent of all the unmapped routes we came to know
in the Zone.

Anyway, the G-word keeps popping up all along. I know I can be repetitive
("monomaniac"..? WHO SAID THAT?!) about the schemes of sin and preterition
and just-maybe-redemption in all the books. I'm not even a Christian myself.
But dammit (so to speak), he's been tugging at our sleeves about it ever
since Christmas Eve 1955 on old East Main...

"Profane had figured at first that he was only the disembodied object of a
corporal work of mercy. That, in the company of innumerable small and
wounded animals, bums on the street, near-dying and lost to God, he was only
another means to grace or indulgence for Fina..." (V p. 134 (Harper))