ATDTDA - grace

[Joseph T]

On Feb 10, 2007, at 4:39 PM, Joseph T wrote:

> I think Paul's sense of how TP is using religious language is  
> useful and accords with my own.  Religious language and imagery is  
> embedded strongly in the story and my sense is that Pynchon is  
> reclaiming the language  from the  war mongers for God  and the  
> perfect ism and pointing out both the limits and beauties of this  
> language.
> Anyway my posts on the topic are intended to shed light on the  
> text , not to argue for some narrow or "true" interpretation.
> On Feb 10, 2007, at 2:52 PM, Paul Mackin wrote:
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>> On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 13:28 -0500, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:
>>> SPOILER ALERT -- last page
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>> Grace can  be made to sound less Christianly religious if we think  
>> of it
>> as "deliverance" and simultaneously replace Grace's opposite--Sin-- 
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>> "injustice."
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>> 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.
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>> And at the end of the book, the Chum's fly toward the hope that  
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>> "good unsought and uncompensated" will come into the world, although
>> there is as yet no sign of this actually happening.
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>> Against the Day is a book of Hope, Hope as yet unfulfilled.
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>> Anarchism is a hope of deliverance, but to date that deliverance  
>> has not
>> arrived or is any place in the vicinity.
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>> Not on earth, only in magic and dreams.
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