Back to AtD. Another use of 'grace"

[rich]

I love being digged man. off hand iron hand-rod? nope not me. my
religion frowns upon that sort of activity

On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Bled Welder <bledwelder at gmail.com> wrote:
> First off, I don't know who Faye Weldon is.  I'm not a googly Googler, so
> I'm not looking it up..
>
> Ah, it took me on the  second part. What is a bastard?  What does it mean?.
> Just sort of, when you use words, you have something in mind.  Unless you
> don't.  And I think that if you're targeting me, it's fair that I want
> accountablity.
>
> What do you mean by bastard.  Because  I can take that in any number of
> ways.
>
> Trust me man, I've always digged you Romeo, but your comment here has a
> smell of off-handed iron hand-rod about it.
>
> On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 9:38 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>> >
>> >
>> > 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....
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Elaine M.M. Bell, Writer
>> >> 860.833.2625
>> >> Have Laptop/Will Travel
>> >> (but wicked good to be back in Massachusetts)
>> >
>> >
>
>