Resisting Grace

[bandwraith at aol.com]

"Unless the state of our souls becomes once more a subject of serious
concern, there is little question that Sloth will continue to evolve
away from its origins in the long-ago age of faith and miracle, when
daily life really was the Holy Ghost visibly at work and time was a
story, with a beginning, middle and end. Belief was intense, engagement
deep and fatal. The Christian God was near. Felt. Sloth -- defiant
sorrow in the face of God's good intentions -- was a deadly sin.


Perhaps the future of Sloth will lie in sinning against what now seems
increasingly to define us -- technology. Persisting in Luddite sorrow,
despite technology's good intentions, there we'll sit with our heads in
virtual reality, glumly refusing to be absorbed in its idle, disposable
fantasies, even those about superheroes of Sloth back in Sloth's good
old days, full of leisurely but lethal misadventures with the ruthless
villains of the Acedia Squad."




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Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l