Back to AtD. Another use of 'grace"

[Bled Welder]

How did it become five days ago?


   1. Besides that complete idiot MM Bell, I just want to say something.
    Mark, Mr. Kohut, you're a trip.  Okay, what page are you on?  967.
   2. 967.   Fine,  967
   3. Has just, coincidentally, ever asked Ruggles why he wrote a thousand
   page book?  It's absurd.  Has anyone noticed that he's a freak?
   4. Okay, time for 967.
   5. And All Is Well In Town, don't fuck with me.
   6. Because I'll fuck you hard back.


On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> YES!....the time in which one could fully live in time, not in History as
> a State of Seige.
>
> History as a state of seige, impending war, then war---at one point we
> read that no one knew whether
> War was official or not yet there was fighting---is the major atmosphere
> of these pages......
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>   *From:* David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> *To:* Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>; Pynchon- L <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> *Sent:* Thursday, December 27, 2012 9:42 AM
> *Subject:* Re: Back to AtD. Another use of 'grace"
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>  Grace used here might literally mean time, but a fuller meaning would be
> a period of being free from harm.
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> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>wrote:
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> Okay, thinking about the grace as time thing. It holds possibilities as a
> secular definition.
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> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 3:30 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>    p. 970...After Reef has had the drop taken on them by three Albanians,
> and Reef says the gleam from barrels
> all around and says he is a dead duck in Albanian...which
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> "'Buys' him a minute and a half of grace", "which turns out to be just
> enough"....
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> Grace here meaning time, of course,
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> And I think that is no accident or outlier use and dovetails nicely with
> other uses....
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