AtD: Lew's experience of grace

Richard Fiero rfiero at gmail.com
Wed Dec 1 18:47:46 CST 2010


alice wellintown wrote:
>Could the word "grace," the last word in Pynchon's most important
>work, have anything to do with Christian Grace? . . .

I was watching Glen Beck last night-actually I wasn't watching Beck, 
I was watching the ads. All of the ads were like straight out of some 
magazine back pages. Ads for buying gold, commemorative junk and so 
on. Suckers! Now "grace" is something I'd expect to hear from Mr. Beck.
It seems to me that we've moved from playing with the word "tragic" 
to playing with "grace." I maintain there is a strong connection 
between the two when we see tragic characters as alienated and cut 
off from renewal and grace.
This is not the trippy shit one might want. It's just the human 
condition and no human has ever or ever will experience grace.





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