A Good Grace is Hardly Found

[Markekohut]

I'll bet your post- high school intelligence and total sensibility would also feel the redemption, thematic and psychological if not religious (for you) .....

Forgive my pretending to overturn your own self-judgment; always out of line but take it as a literary judgment
On Ms O' Conner that I think you miss....

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On Nov 29, 2012, at 5:54 PM, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:

> 
> More comfortable on shore anyway: can't swim.
> 
> LK
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: malignd at aol.com 
> Sent: Nov 29, 2012 5:50 PM 
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org 
> Subject: Re: A Good Grace is Hardly Found 
> 
> Talk about missing the boat ...
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kelber <kelber at mindspring.com>
> To: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Thu, Nov 29, 2012 10:54 am
> Subject: Re: A Good Grace is Hardly Found
> 
> As a person who struggles with severe bouts of depression, I avoid 
> relentlessly-depressing writers like O'Connor.  Had to read her in high school 
> (Everything That Rises Must Converge), and vowed I'd never willingly subject 
> myself to her darkness again.  As a rabid Pynchon fan, I'm not looking for 
> fluffy feel-good shit.  But I don't want to read a series of stories whose sole 
> purpose is to prove, however eloquently or wittily, that everything sucks.  I'm 
> also wary of novelists who throw in gratuitous horrors to give their otherwise 
> tepid work dramatic weight.  Which novelists am I talking about?  I don't even 
> know - I avoid writers who might even potentially be capable of doing this.  
> Books with blurbs using phrases such as "after a horrifying tragedy, Hubert has 
> to come to terms with ..." and so on.  Pynchon writes of horrors, but he 
> simultaneously hands out steady doses of intriguing mind-expanding prose and 
> side explorations, by way of anesthetic.  And I know he loves dogs too much to 
> kill or torture them gratuitously.
> 
> Laura
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
> >Sent: Nov 29, 2012 10:31 AM
> >To: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
> >Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> >Subject: Re: A Good Grace is Hardly Found
> >
> >thanks for the suggestion alice. considering my mood lately maybe I
> >should read more of her. and apologies for being a dick
> >
> >rich
> >
> >On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 6:07 PM, alice wellintown
> ><alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> No probs, bros, I don't spect nothin less round this here list of
> >> late. But it was a great thing I wrote about grace; if you know what I
> >> mean. See, grace and free will are tropes that P just be playin wit.
> >>
> >>  Now that O'Connor is another thing all together. She ain't messing
> >> round with it; she's dead in the eye serious. What a fine writer is
> >> Flannery O'Connor; her shorts are tight, her legs, even when they be
> >> stretched wooden ones, be  long.
> >>
> >> http://www.csub.edu/english/engl375/o'connor.htmlx
> 
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