ATDTDA - grace

[kelber at mindspring.com]

But he uses "grace" to mean that things are what they are, which pains Lew, because it's the absence of hope.

-----Original Message-----
>From: Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net>


>So, Lew, very fleetingly, experiences a feeling that things are not, or
>may not always be, what they are or what they seem.  But in the next
>moment that feeling of hope (grace) has vanished.

>And at the end of the book, the Chum's fly toward the hope that somehow
>"good unsought and uncompensated" will come into the world, although
>there is as yet no sign of this actually happening.
>
>Against the Day is a book of Hope, Hope as yet unfulfilled.
>
>Anarchism is a hope of deliverance, but to date that deliverance has not
>arrived or is any place in the vicinity. 
>
>Not on earth, only in magic and dreams.
>