Back to AtD. Another use of 'grace"

[Elaine M.M. Bell]

*Thanks for the compliment, Bled.  I would hate to be considered an
incomplete idiot.*
*PS:  Are you insane?
*
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 1:26 AM, Bled Welder <bledwelder at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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:
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>> 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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