Back to AtD. Another use of 'grace"

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Fri Dec 28 21:03:20 CST 2012


Grace (X) Loves its opposite, Violent Destruction (Y), you say.  Not a new
revelation.  Yin Yang. XvY.  A spinner dance.

David Morris

On Friday, December 28, 2012, alice wellintown wrote:

> > 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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