Why Sista be messin wit the Devil

[Terrance]

Dave Meury wrote:
> 
> Not to contradict Terrance here but just throwing out another tidbit on
> the blame game in the creation story.   Isn't there an interpretation
> that says Adam's sin was uxoriousness -- loving his wife more than God,
> giving in to her gastronomical recommendation rather than observing the
> stricture against it?
> 
> He does seem to do a little tap-dance when he gets busted, though.  Oh,
> that's right, he didn't have shoes.  Never mind.

A choice of two goods. Love versus Love. Tough stuff. Tragic. 
That's pretty much Milton's take on it. Oh, and Eve, poor thing, didn't
get the Angelic Education that Adam did. And, even after the Fall,  Adam
could have divorced her. ;--)

But Eve makes a beautiful speech

Forsake me not .... forgive me and we should go and ask God to forgive
us too. 

Of course Pynchon is in Love this story. He was raised  a Catholic and
Mary, the second Eve is a big deal to catholics. Graves is as important
to V. as Henry Adams. In GR he explores the Gnostic versions of creation
and fall (mostly from Jonas and Eliade). Scholem ... 

Nimrael, a female, and Ashaklun, a male devil, bring forth two children, 
Adam and Eve. 

In Adam's body were imprisoned a vast number of germs of light. 

He was the great captive of the Power of Evil. 

The Powers of Light had pity and sent a Savior,
the luminous Jesus.