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It wasn't love at first sight. They ran into each other one morning in a sunny clearing in the forest. A few moments of stunned silence. "Glockenspiel", Adam pronounced, thinking (but with terrible doubt) he'd found another animal in search of a name. When Eve approached him, proffering a handful of elderberries, he threw a stick at her and ran away.

The first thing to say about Eve is that she was a big improvement on the Adam design, or that Adam was an extremely misguided version of the Eve design. (Consider testicles. Two concentrated nuclei of absolute vulnerability. Where? Dangling between the legs. I rest my case.)

When the sun shone, he rejoiced. When the rain fell, he rejoiced. When neither sun shone no rain fell, he rejoiced.He was a one-speed kind of guy, Adam, until Eve came along.

What was Eden if not an exercise in Divine ambivalence?

The only animal from which humans have nothing to learn, in fact, is the sheep. Humans have already learned everything the sheep's got to teach.