Blame
Posted by Blue Cereal on Sunday, 25 November 2018When authors repeat a theme with minor variations, they’re trying to tell you something. Great literature does it, Broadway musicals do it, even sitcoms do it. Two stories, melodies, or wacky conflicts weave around one another, each echoing and expanding the other. The parallels between this passage and the account of mankind’s initial fall are striking – as are the differences.
The right clergyman could preach a Venn Diagram of these for a straight month.