AtD: Lew's experience of grace

[Mark Kohut]

Kai is priming us to read (re) read Against The Day next, right?

Lotsa grace talk but I am a textual contrarian: I think TRP redefines 'Grace' 
away from
all the Protestant Ethic and Puritan/Catholic stuff...........................

He gives the epiphany to Lew............he does a deep moral transvaluation of 
all values
bit with it with Cyprian................................

And he ends the whole overarching Chums saga with it--------ambiguously re its 
historic value............

More, always more, later.............

imho. 


----- Original Message ----
From: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Wed, December 1, 2010 3:09:22 PM
Subject: Re: AtD: Lew's experience of grace

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.