AtD: Lew's experience of grace

[rich]

i hate to go over this ground again but does Lew rape Lake at the end in LA.?



On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Kai is priming us to read (re) read Against The Day next, right?
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> Lotsa grace talk but I am a textual contrarian: I think TRP redefines 'Grace'
> away from
> all the Protestant Ethic and Puritan/Catholic stuff...........................
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> He gives the epiphany to Lew............he does a deep moral transvaluation of
> all values
> bit with it with Cyprian................................
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> And he ends the whole overarching Chums saga with it--------ambiguously re its
> historic value............
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> More, always more, later.............
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> imho.
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> ----- 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
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> On Dec 1, 2010, at 12:02 PM, David Morris wrote:
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>> I think you've summed this up nicely.
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>> 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
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> 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.
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