NP but grace in Camus.

[peterthooper at juno.com]

Catholic grace comes through channels,
The Pope, the priest, the Host, the sacraments, the bulls, 
the saints...
Protestants say grace before dinner, Jewish grace after*

- In V., though, grace is a rare access of physical non-clumsiness and social confidence that allows Benny near Josefina;
In AtD it’s the last word.





* * https://daytonjewishobserver.org/2015/05/amazing-but-divergent-concepts-of-grace/



---------- Original Message ----------
From: Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Subject: NP but grace in Camus.
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2020 04:20:02 -0400

in *The Plague*, Camus gives us a priest, Paneloux, who
embodies the religious response to the plague. (and, in a
later post, you will learn of a wonderful original aspect of
Camus's creation) but here we have only this:

Paneloux responds to the horror of an innocent child's suffering and
dying, surely a reworking of that conceptual presentation in *The Brothers
Karamazov.*

*P: *'that sort of thing is revolting because it passes our human
understanding. But perhaps
we should love what we can't understand." [no question mark]

Dr Rieux "No, Father, I've a very different idea of love. And until my
dying day I shall refuse
to love a scheme of things in which children are put to torture."---The
almost direct allusion to* The Brothers K. *

A shade of disquietude crossed the priest's face.
"Ah ,doctor', he said sadly, I've just realized what is meant by grace"

Gimme 25 words on the old-fashioned religious notion of grace. Calvinist or
Catholic, and its use here. And its
similarity or difference from Pynchon's usages. (Okay, you're allowed
another 25 words)


In other news, Trump and his Trumpeters are advocating euthanasia for old
folks so as to preserve a hardy heartless capitalism.
A new meaning to 'late capitalism".

Tom Friedman should commit seppuku to preserve the full humanity of public
discourse.
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