A Good Grace is Hardly Found

[David Morris]

Rich! Who are you? Why so angry? Alice ain't so bad. Why so angry?

David Morris

On Tuesday, November 27, 2012, Rich wrote:

> Native New Yorker catholic so as we say here fuck you and yr grace Alice,
> fuck Henry Adams, fuck lew bad night and fuck Pynchon, too. Get yr bleeding
> cunt out of a book and see the real wonder about hereabouts
>
>
>
> On Nov 27, 2012, at 5:53 PM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
>
> > So, I must admit that I failed, failed fairly miserably to explain
> > Grace to a room packed with non-Christian kids from the emerging
> > economies come to Brooklyn to be hipsters, who stand about like so
> > many clean, somehow antithetically, younger brothers incarcerated in
> > my Sonny's Blues Project, and that I have, when the tightening
> > sphincter, or the tightening tourniquet bubbling a dragon under my
> > skin pierced by a China white butterfly's pin, chased Grace under fire
> > with blood on the wire, there, where a good man is hard, where a hard
> > man is good, where the finds are fine and a heart is a heart
> > like...like, whatever...is this Flannery
> > O'Connor...like...saying....like...Grace?
> >
> > “There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to
> > stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls
> > at least be offered the chance to be restored. The reader of today
> > looks for this motion, and rightly so, but what he has forgotten is
> > the cost of it. His sense of evil is diluted or lacking altogether,
> > and so he has forgotten the price of restoration. When he reads a
> > novel, he wants either his sense tormented or his spirits raised. He
> > wants to be transported, instantly, either to mock damnation or a mock
> > innocence.”
> >
> > “All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is
> > not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories
> > as hard, hopeless and brutal.”
> >
> > “Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost
> > imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for
> > the nature of the violences which precede and follow them.”
>
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