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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