Grace?

[Seymour Landnau]

Spoken almost like a true Cherrycokian.

"I could not stay away from...this object hope...that all the wistful
Fictions necessary to the childhood of a species might yet come true..."



On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 10:07 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> If so it suggests to me that our fictions, our myths can free themselves
> from the past and lead us toward something better.  A grace not given from
> some separate above but coming out of our questions and conscience and
> human needs to be tasted moment by moment in what is..
> > On Aug 7, 2017, at 3:36 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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