Back to AtD. Another use of 'grace"

[Mark Kohut]

David, did you state this so succinctly earlier (In our time after time Plaist timelessness?)? When we last discussed
"Grace"?....doesn't matter, question can be rhetorical but I want to say that I think that might sum up Grace overarchingly
best as used in Against the Day.....it moves religious meanings into the not-necessarily religious, secularizes the meaning but
not in a way that closes off any metaphysical meanings....
 
Fits perfectly with the ending use and fits perfectly for that first use when Lew is not injured by the dynamite blast and experiences
grace on the other side of the blast......


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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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