Back to AtD. Another use of 'grace"

[Mark Kohut]

YES!....the time in which one could fully live in time, not in History as a State of Seige.
 
History as a state of seige, impending war, then war---at one point we read that no one knew whether
War was official or not yet there was fighting---is the major atmosphere of these pages......


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From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
To: Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> 
Cc: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>; Pynchon- L <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 9:42 AM
Subject: Re: Back to AtD. Another use of 'grace"


Grace used here might literally mean time, but a fuller meaning would be a period of being free from harm.



On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:

Okay, thinking about the grace as time thing. It holds possibilities as a secular definition.
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>On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 3:30 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>p. 970...After Reef has had the drop taken on them by three Albanians, and Reef says the gleam from barrels
>>all around and says he is a dead duck in Albanian...which 
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>>"'Buys' him a minute and a half of grace", "which turns out to be just enough"....
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>>Grace here meaning time, of course, 
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>>And I think that is no accident or outlier use and dovetails nicely with other uses....
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