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

[Mark Kohut]

Afraid I can't....just what I thought I gathered by coincidental
reading...I'm sure you and other real scholars
know or not.......

If you don't, I guess it's fake history or just fake scholarship (on my
part)

On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 10:56 AM bulb <bulb at vheissu.net> wrote:

> 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.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pynchon-l <pynchon-l-bounces at waste.org> On Behalf Of Mark Kohut
> Sent: donderdag 14 februari 2019 12:22
> To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> 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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