Very misc related to grace

[David Morris]

I think a definition of "Grace" is a benevolence from above.  A gift, not
something earned or deserved, bestowed from a higher level.  At least that
has a lot to do with Lutheran or Calvinist theology of Salvation.

On Monday, November 26, 2012, David Morris wrote:

> Well said, Alice!
>
> Paradox, Koans & Pretzil Logic R Pynchon.  Yin Yang is about all the
> blends of duality, rarely the opposites alone.  His BIG ideas aren't
> polemic, they're exploratory.
>
> David Morris
>
> On Monday, November 26, 2012, alice wellintown 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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