AtD: Lew's experience of grace

[alice wellintown]

Could the word "grace," the last word in Pynchon's most important
work, have anything to do with Christian Grace? Seems a question worth
considering, though those inclined to kick out the karmic
counterforces to Grace might argue, and argue gracefully, that "grace"
 is just another word, another lower case word, even if it is the last
word, and even though "they fly toward it."  Well, to fly toward grace
is an odd phrase. Isn't it? One doesn't fly toward Chrisitan Grace.
One is Delivered by it. To fly toward grace implies a Return to Grace
and the possibility of, if not Grace, grace. So what is grace? Maybe
it is  http://www.csr.utexas.edu/grace/


 As Bartleby is not, can not be delivered or Delivered because he  has
no other address, other than Wall Street, and because the lawyer can
not read him--he is a Dead Letter, a Dead Man, a Humanity Lost,
intermed at The Tombs, though never given even a meagre recital, so
that the "Burial" or rather non-burial of the Dead, in a Wasteland,
prevents his being Delivered, prevents Grace from Saving him, what
flies as Grace, not toward it,  are the birds that drop seed where
Leaves of Grass spring forth in the Heart of the Tombs. One needn't
fly toward grace if one still lives with, within, under,
whatever...grace. That grass, by some strange magic, is proof that,
though men may abondon men, Bartleby/Humanity, Nature or God or
whatever, is ever so graceful.

The Y axis is drawn from the devil to god and Grace Delivers us from Evil.

The X axis is drawn from Man to Man and Delivers, if not from Evil,
toward grace, or back to Grace.

We needn't Wait like some Angels are siad to do in Milton's famous
sonnet, or Fly, as others in the Sonnet are said to do, for what parts
the sky is a glory, even if we see through smoked goggles darkly.