Not Pynchon but Nietzsche on grace.--Pynchonian grace?-- & On the Bible

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Can you clarify this: " We seem to know P has read N's* Birth of Tragedy* at least, some readers and scholars seem to show." Sounds interesting.

Thanks!

Michel.

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Subject: Not Pynchon but Nietzsche on grace.--Pynchonian grace?-- & On the Bible

Didja know that in* Beyond Good & Evil,* Nietzsche writes that the New Testament is 'the book of grace"? He cannot have meant God-infused, right?

"The Old Testament is a touchstone of 'greatness' in writing and themes AND 'smallness'," Nietzsche wrote

I am rereading this book because of some words I have read about it arguing against the excluded middle in moral assertions...for a 'morality'--or
anti-morality-- beyond binaries. That Pynchon trope/theme.

HENCE THE TITLE!, d'uh....
(And I only now see that his remark about the Old Testament yokes together beyond simple binaries! Nice. )

We need almost all the beyondness we can get, I'd say. One of N's famous aphorisms, directly giving the tile maybe,  dovetails, hell, echoes, a major Christian one: "What is done out of love happens beyond good & evil".

Will Nietzsche & Pynchon merge at all here? We seem to know P has read N's* Birth of Tragedy* at least, some readers and scholars seem to show.
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