AtD: Lew's experience of grace

[Robin Landseadel]

On Dec 1, 2010, at 12:02 PM, David Morris wrote:

> I think you've summed this up nicely.
>
> Now for the other-than-moral aspect(s) of this grace-state in AtD:
> "Lew found himself surrounded by a luminosity new to him."  We know
> that one aspect of the term "against the day" has to do with
> photography, a view/image of a subject flooded by a source of light
> from behind.  Indeed much of the symbology of AtD revolves around
> aspects of light/illumination.  And light in Lew's new
> grace-experience is a kind he'd never seen before.  I think it's clear
> Pynchon expects readers to focus on his uses of light as having more
> than visual meaning.
>
> David Morris

Speaking only for myself, I always sense a change in the way things  
look when I go 'round one of those corners to a different spiritual  
place.