Grace?

[Thomas Eckhardt]

Oh, this is very nice.

Yes, I suggest, Gottfried is flying toward grace. But his ascent will be 
"betrayed to Gravity" and we will witness his and the rocket's descent 
on the final page of the novel. For the /Inconvenience/, however, no 
such descent is envisaged. Is it possible that the boys manage to escape?

Echoes indeed.

On 8/5/2017 6:22 PM, Krafft, John M. wrote:
> If observing/perceiving/understanding things to be exactly as they are
> is grace in AD, compare this passage from the end of GR. Surely
> Gottfried isn't flying toward grace, is he?
> 
> 	This ascent will be betrayed to Gravity. But the Rocket engine, the
> deep cry of combustion that jars the soul, promises escape. The
> victim, in bondage to falling, rises on a promise, a prophecy, of
> Escape....
> 	Moving now toward the kind of light where at last the apple is
> apple-colored. The knife cuts through the apple like a knife cutting
> an apple. Everything is where it is, no clearer than usual, but
> certainly more present.
> 
> 
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