Very misc related to grace

alice wellintown alicewellintown at gmail.com
Mon Nov 26 17:15:23 CST 2012


Pynchon likes to take on the BIG ideas (Entropy, History, Virginity,
Gravity...Free Will & Grace) and turn them into pretzil logics or
force them into Koans that paradoxically turn out to be ironic book of
the dead (allusive parables) dead ends.

Now, I'm no expert on Grace, or Pynchon, but I suspect that his use of
Grace is an example of the propensity described above, and
specifically the paraodoxical BIG idea Grace/Free Will.

Why Pynchon does this or to what end is open to lotz of readings. I
suspect that he does it because he is lazy; he re-worksd old material
over and over again.



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