Against the Day after Inherent Vice again

[Mark Kohut]

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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