Against the Day after Inherent Vice again

Mark Kohut markekohut at yahoo.com
Sun Feb 19 14:15:42 CST 2012


Is the Inherent Vice, Original Sin, as was discussed during the read? 
 
Twice in the first 225 pages of AtD, Original Sin is in the text...Most interestingly maybe on p 223:
When the Gand Cohen is talking to Lew about the concept of the Psychical Detective----who by the
way asks if he talks too much, bloviation itself asking, we can laugh:
 
"Suppose there were no such thing, after all, as Original Sin. Suppose the Serpent in the Garden of Eden
was never symbolic, but a real being in a real history of intrusion from somewhere else. Say from 'behind the sky'---
--Say we were perfect. We were law-abiding and clean. Then one day THEY arrived."
 
 
Evil from behind the [screaming?] sky.....and then THEY arrived [to invade our Garden of Eden]?? This is
what it would be like without Original Sin??
 
Or is it, the Grand Cohen being another satirized buffoon, yes? what Original Sin is like? 
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