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It tasted no more sweet nor pungent than
some other fruit.  Nor could they find some hidden
essence---except that it had been forbidden.
That quality will ever tempt a man:
such that the wanting is its sole attraction
(while having brings too little satisfaction).
Thus runs the curse that all, since then, must bear
ever:  the here not quite as nice as there;
the now not like the future or the past;
and something always wrong with first or last---
depending on position and perspective.
Too frequent, universal, and collective---
temptation and desire (joined in collusion)
will wreak upon this world a vast confusion
that God Himself will have to straighten out
(enormous task, of that they had no doubt).
Here, now, began with them sin's great coercion---
to discontent, corruption, and perversion.

Starward
 
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