Dependent Origination & Grace

[Mark Kohut]

Nice...Thanxx for sending....where is it from?...
did you write it?

Anyway, Yes TRP is very American but I am assuming this was written before 
ATD was published......And my two cents are that that book graced us with a differently richer definition of Grace----to resonate with that Puritan one......

.02c


--- On Wed, 8/20/08, Anne Bradstreet <annegracebradstreet at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Anne Bradstreet <annegracebradstreet at gmail.com>
> Subject: Dependent Origination & Grace
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Wednesday, August 20, 2008, 9:33 AM
> The inhuman and inhumane forces are countered by Grace. And,
> Pynchon, who we
> now know as the son of Brockden Brown, Hawthorne, Melville,
> Thoreau, Adams,
> Fitzgerald ...& Co., a Catholic Boy with Puritan
> Calvinism stained in his
> bloody beard, is so not the European or Eastern
> philosopher, but an
> American, Post-Ralph Emerson/ Ellison author of novels
> about America's
> uncertain, obscure, yet determined Labor to "partakers
> of the divine
> nature."
> 
>    TO HIM who in the love of Nature holds   Communion with
> her visible
> forms, she speaks   A various language; for his gayer hours
>   She has a
> voice of gladness, and a smile   And eloquence of beauty,
> and she glides *
>          * Into his darker musings, with a mild   And
> healing sympathy, that
> steals away   Their sharpness, ere he is aware.