Simone Weil's Gravity & Grace is seldom spoken of re Pynchon's vision

[Mark Kohut]

>From someone passionately inspired by Weil:

"Evil is gravity for Weil: irresistible force. When a man ‘turns away from
God, he simply gives himself up to the law of gravity. He thinks that he
can decide and choose, but he is only a thing, a stone that falls.’

*‘Any attempt to gain this deliverance by means of my own energy would be
like the efforts of a cow which pulls at its hobble and so falls onto its
knees.’*

The same necessity which drives gravity also drives grace. In *The Love of
God and Affliction, *she writes very beautifully about this:"