Very misc related to grace

[Ian Livingston]

In response to your question, Bekah, I can only answer: yes.

On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Well Alice,  that post makes me wonder why we read Pynchon  -  is it for
> the ideas (big or small),  the style,  the weirdness/originality (when it
> happens), the dense narrative,  the Grace,   the challenge,  the snob
> appeal (if there is any),   other reasons?
>
> Bekah
>
>
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> On Nov 26, 2012, at 3:15 PM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > 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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