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A portrait of Lucifer encountering the world of the five senses, telling his version of the Bible, and discovering what it's like to be human - in the shape of a suicidal writer called Declan Gunn living in Clerkenwell.
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A portrait of Lucifer encountering the world of the five senses, telling his version of the Bible, and discovering what it's like to be human - in the shape of a suicidal writer called Declan Gunn living in Clerkenwell.
Forlag Scribner
Utgivelsesår 2003
Format Heftet
ISBN13 9780743220132
EAN 9780743220132
Språk Engelsk
Sider 262
Utgave 1
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Start en diskusjon om verket Se alle diskusjoner om verketThe 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.)
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.
What was Eden if not an exercise in Divine ambivalence?
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.
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.