Grace again. Misc.
Mark Kohut
mark.kohut at gmail.com
Sat Jul 29 15:03:35 CDT 2017
>From the wayback (but eternal?) religious uses, the opposite might be
damnation.
What might it be in Pynchon's transformation of the meaning of the word?
On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 3:28 PM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
wrote:
> You are the native speaker, Mark, but I would say it's bullshit if you
> don't provide context. What kind of grace? You have disgrace, you have
> clumsiness, I'm sure you have more opposites of grace.
>
> 2017-07-29 21:11 GMT+02:00 Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com>:
>
>> I suggest "trump"
>> ------------------------------
>> From: Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>> Sent: 7/29/2017 20:06
>> To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Subject: Grace again. Misc.
>>
>> Gracelessness is an absence of grace, but the English language lacks a
>> word for the opposite of grace.--Cass Sunstein, very recent essay.
>>
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