Back to AtD. Another use of 'grace"

alice wellintown alicewellintown at gmail.com
Fri Dec 28 18:19:57 CST 2012


> yeahp..good points.  Reef is NOT too graceful in his shooting here......that does come to him, is not in him.

Reef inherits a violent anarchistic resistance to power, the same one
that will send  Frenesi over to Brock. It is graceless, though, at
times, because Grace loves resistance, given a minute or two of Grace,
because it is violent and it takes pleasure in the violent destruction
of those it judges not worthy of grace. But judge not and withdraw,
find adventure, and toward Grace you will fly. But what of the Earth?
Is it Fallen? Beyond Grace? Hell? So says Sean Molloy.

Escaping the Politics of the Irredeemable Earth—Anarchy and
Transcendence in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon



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