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

[Mark Kohut]

And I think some of our Plist talk, maybe just mine, also found or
projected some other connections.
Birth of Tragedy is another I had read long before my rebirth.

On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 11:14 AM Heikki R <
situations.journeys.comedy at gmail.com> wrote:

> The passage STRUNG INTO THE APOLLONIAN DREAM on the final pages of GR draws
> on FN's "TBoT(ftSoM)".
>
> bulb <bulb at vheissu.net> kirjoitti to 14. helmik. 2019 klo 17.56:
>
> > 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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