Back to AtD. Another use of 'grace"

[David Morris]

"To catch a break" might be another way of conveying the grace Reef is
given (or has bought?).  Can you give the lines just before this?  I'm
wondering what or who bought this minute and a half of grace.


On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 9:42 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 3:30 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  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
>>>
>>> "'Buys' him a minute and a half of grace", "which turns out to be just
>>> enough"....
>>>
>>> Grace here meaning time, of course,
>>>
>>> And I think that is no accident or outlier use and dovetails nicely with
>>> other uses....
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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