And yet sometimes it seems to me I am there, among the incriminated scenes, tottering under the attributes peculiar to the lords of creation ... Yes, more than once I almost took myself for the other, all but suffered after his fashion, the space of an instant.

Samuel Beckett
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It seems that the imagination works its own freaky magic sometimes. The mind can conjure up a whole new world that is totally different from the one we know. Sometimes it’s as if we have been transported to another place, time and place. In the Biblical story of Adam and Eve, God placed Adam and Eve in a garden where there was no crime or violence.

The concept of original sin came from this passage. In the Bible, God said to Adam, “…for you will surely die; for you are flesh, and to dust you will return.” And God was right: Adam died and went back to dust. One day, I happened upon a book by a very gifted writer named Patrick Rothfuss who wrote a book called “The Name of the Wind.” In this book, he presents a different version of the story of Adam and Eve from God’s perspective. In this version, God sees Adam as He sees everyone else: as a person who is mortal and will die one day.

And yet God loves him anyway, because love is universal no matter what our status in life is, where we belong or how much power we have over others.

Source: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable

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