A Good Grace is Hardly Found

[Rich]

Just a dumbass who took the bait.



On Nov 27, 2012, at 11:04 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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> 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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