ATDTDA - grace

[Mark Kohut]

I wholemindedly agree with Ms. Kelber and must grace-sic--fully thank Monte Davis for all those findings of grace.
   
  Except for "fall from grace" , a sort of different social meaning, and even here anti-establshment, 'grace" for TRP seems to come from wonderful things between people within the day, so to say.   Yes?

kelber at mindspring.com wrote:
  That's a lot of grace. Gracias. Most of the examples you've found definitely have a religious rather than "things exactly as they are" connotation, though grace seems to come from other people (or the "established scientific religion"), rather than directly from god.

Laura

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>From: Monte Davis 
>Sent: Feb 10, 2007 3:18 PM
>To: kelber at mindspring.com, pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: RE: ATDTDA - grace
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>> TRP uses (and defines) the word "grace" on p.42...
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>That's a *very* nice connection to the GRACE experiment -- utterly
>appropriate, whether TRP had it in mind or not.
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>A few more:
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>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)
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>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)
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>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)
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>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)
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>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)
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>That last one is *so* reminiscent of all the unmapped routes we came to know
>in the Zone.
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>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))
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