Back to AtD. Another use of 'grace"

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you are married to Fay Weldon, you old bastard

On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 9:26 AM, Bled Welder <bledwelder at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
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> 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?
>>>
>>> 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.
>>> 967.   Fine,  967
>>> Has just, coincidentally, ever asked Ruggles why he wrote a thousand page
>>> book?  It's absurd.  Has anyone noticed that he's a freak?
>>> Okay, time for 967.
>>> And All Is Well In Town, don't fuck with me.
>>> 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....
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>> --
>> Elaine M.M. Bell, Writer
>> 860.833.2625
>> Have Laptop/Will Travel
>> (but wicked good to be back in Massachusetts)
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