Margaret AtwoodMaybe I don’t really want to know what’s going on. Maybe I’d rather not know. Maybe I couldn’t bear to know. The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge.
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The fall from innocence to knowledge is a fall from ignorance to wisdom. The term, “fall” implies an opposite. And the opposite is that we now know and we don’t know. Before we were ignorant and now we know, but we also can’t bear to know. The mystery of the fall is what makes us human.
Source: The Handmaids Tale
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