AtD: Lew's experience of grace

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From: Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wed, Dec 1, 2010 7:40 am
Subject: AtD: Lew's experience of grace

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How representative is Lew's experience for AtD's overall concept of 
"grace"?

Kai


"He immersed himself in work on the project, and was present
at the Trinity bomb test. Feynman claimed to be the only person
to see the explosion without the very dark glasses or welder's
lenses provided, reasoning that it was safe to look through a
truck windshield, as it would screen out the harmful ultraviolet
radiation."

       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feynman

Maybe there's a secular form of grace- something about observing
rather than being observed, or writing history rather than being
the subject of someone else's observations. Maybe it's having
the chance, at least, to dream about Tuva, even if you don't quite
make the trip.