Very misc related to grace

[alice wellintown]

I don't see much difference, much development on the Free Will & Grace
paradox in P. He bangs it like and old drum. He never tires of it
because it is so easy to play on, and, while I agree, this isn't all
lazy, really, it is retread and not anything like what you describe.
In fact, banging the Grace drum is a way of making sport of the
splitting of hairs and dancings on pin heads. . Much of Pynchon is
retread and that's not a big deal as far as I am concerned. Most
authors bang on old drums and drive on retreads.

That said, Grace is so beautiful, and, sorry, Amazing,  that it's
difficult to get the joke, it kinda takes us whle we are laughing so
we don't here the post horn blast its last.

> Almost absolute disagreement....TRP consciously,creatively gave us his, his visionary meanings of grace.....they relate to anti-Calvinism fer sure.....it is MAJOR in the scenic first use with Lew.....
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> IT ENDS THE BOOK RESONANTLY. Not lazy and not recycled in that use in AtD.
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> of course, it folds in many meanings...again, like Shakespeare, Eliot or other great writers
> ---i am taken With possible uses/meanings etc. that went deep in TRP---I posted a possible Hemingway--grace under pressure--twist recently.
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> and, yesterday, a Church-going adult cAtholic reminded me of the doctrine of 'state of grace'.
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> Sent from my iPad
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> On Nov 26, 2012, at 6:15 PM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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.