ATDTDA - grace
Monte Davis
monte.davis at verizon.net
Mon Feb 19 12:02:00 CST 2007
DM:
> "But they move so gracefully! Not like
> machines at all." (V., Ch. 14, Sec. i, p. 396)
Rilly -- there *is* much more than superficial, verbal connection between
the senses of "grace." Think of AthleteSpeak invocations of "peak" or "flow"
states, being in the zone, a-and that Zen archery.
Maybe, crudely:
religious or moral "grace" : occasions of sin :: physical grace : occasions
of clumsiness
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