Back to AtD. Another use of 'grace"

[Mark Kohut]

And, concomitantly, some more meaning(s) to 'a narrowing of choices"...p. 963. Here the choices
narrow to ways to choose (so as to avoid getting killed)...leading to:
 
"Only choice. Try and scoot between the armies." Then, if we get that far, worry about that Albania. 
 
As with the extended narrowing use re the cattle in the stockyards, the narrowing is toward death
and, overarchingly, not having full options is a partial death?  An extension right out of N.O.Brown,
so to speak?
 
 
 


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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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