Back to AtD. Another use of 'grace"

[Bled Welder]

Elaine, I just can't fuck with you.  I'm sorry, I will not do it.

I just can't pound, a woman, I won't do that

If you want to get banged, then we would have to have a glass of wine
together.

On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Elaine M.M. Bell <elainemmbell at gmail.com>wrote:

> *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:
>>
>>> 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......
>>>
>>>   *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"
>>>
>>>  Grace used here might literally mean time, but a fuller meaning would
>>> be a period of being free from harm.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>> Okay, thinking about the grace as time thing. It holds possibilities as
>>> a secular definition.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 3:30 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>    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
>>>
>>> "'Buys' him a minute and a half of grace", "which turns out to be just
>>> enough"....
>>>
>>> Grace here meaning time, of course,
>>>
>>> And I think that is no accident or outlier use and dovetails nicely with
>>> other uses....
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Elaine M.M. Bell, Writer
> 860.833.2625
> Have Laptop/Will Travel
> (but wicked good to be back in Massachusetts)
>
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