Malcolm Cowley on Faulkner re: TRP

[Markekohut]

I also think the more oft-quoted phrase is "grace under pressure" giving me the chance to repeat myself gracelessly when I offer up the scene again when Lew comes out of the other side of
A dynamite explosion understanding "grace" .....that genius TRP playing with Hemingway's 
Definition, perhaps, as well as the Catholic and the Puritan. 


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On Dec 3, 2012, at 8:14 PM, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I have self-glossed it as stoic awareness of suffering or death handled with poise.
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> On Dec 3, 2012, at 8:10 PM, Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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>> I can see that -  "grace under fire"  as merely behaving in a very graceful manner while being attacked.    I think that's a bit different from TRP's use in ATD.   
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>> On Dec 3, 2012, at 4:33 PM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>>> How does one define Hemingway's kind of Grace---Courage is grace under fire.
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>>> The Grace of Hemingway, while related to the Grace in O'Connor and
>>> Pynchon has more to do with the new American Hero, the Post_Great War
>>> hero, the one Hemingway gave to American Literature. He is not
>>> Cooper's Hero any longer, though he is certainly related to him and
>>> resembles him a great deal.
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>>> But the Frontier is closed and the New Frontier, though emerging, and,
>>> as we see in GR, soon to be an off the map Zone, is not yet on the
>>> map.
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>>> Like Cooper's hero, Hemingway's hero is a warrior, a man of action, a
>>> tough man, a competitor, and like the Hero in the Cooper tradition, he
>>> has a code of honor, one that is built around courage and honor,
>>> endurance, perseverance, and incredible human resourcefulness. He
>>> shows grace under enormous pressure, as the modern world hurls
>>> confusion, unbolts the center from its hold, spins a gyre into a chaos
>>> while mere anarchy is loosed upon the ceremony of innocense and all
>>> certitude is drowned in a blind man's battle fallen into the bloody
>>> ditch.
>>> 
>>> He has grace, but not Grace, for his thorough disallusionment is inexcapable.
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>>> As young P, who loved this frightening modern state of modern man, and
>>> so skillfully and comically injected it into his first novel,
>>> demonstrated, the modern Hero found nothing when he pushed through the
>>> pasteboard---Nothing...Nothing is at the center of the mystery, at the
>>> center of the ALL,
>>> 
>>> so, at least for Hemingway, faith, in grace, is the Faith in one's own
>>> skill, in one's courage, in one's toughness...
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