Grace?

[David Morris]

Grace?  Good God What is it Good 4?  Absolutely Noting!

On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 2:38 PM Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
wrote:

> 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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