RE: The Fall as Allegorical Fiction.
July 20, 2014 at 12:47 pm
(This post was last modified: July 20, 2014 at 12:52 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
@Min
Not disagreeing with you in the least. We still have this narrative though. I wouldn't expect it to be completely original. We seem to be doomed, as a species, to retelling the same tales down through the ages. We lost egyptian lit for so long it only made it's way into our modern consciousness by proxy and piggybacking. There are definitely older stories (and better ones - but that's just my opinion). I could write a book on some Gilgamesh! Fuckin love it. Same with beowulf, even though we know it's a later story it still deserves it's place as a first among seconds..lol, same with the bible - I'd argue.
@ Tony. Indeed, and notice how god isn't given the omniscient treatment in the narrative? The narrator, amusingly, seems to know more about what's going on than god does. The narrator has the advantage of restrospection..lol. He's looking back both on the "history" of man and at his own personal history.
Not disagreeing with you in the least. We still have this narrative though. I wouldn't expect it to be completely original. We seem to be doomed, as a species, to retelling the same tales down through the ages. We lost egyptian lit for so long it only made it's way into our modern consciousness by proxy and piggybacking. There are definitely older stories (and better ones - but that's just my opinion). I could write a book on some Gilgamesh! Fuckin love it. Same with beowulf, even though we know it's a later story it still deserves it's place as a first among seconds..lol, same with the bible - I'd argue.
@ Tony. Indeed, and notice how god isn't given the omniscient treatment in the narrative? The narrator, amusingly, seems to know more about what's going on than god does. The narrator has the advantage of restrospection..lol. He's looking back both on the "history" of man and at his own personal history.
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