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\u201cMyth is never plausible narrative. It asks for another kind of assent. To anyone for whom it does not strike an important equipose, it seems absurd. The myth of the Fall makes it possible to think of humankind and the world as at the same time intrinsically good and intrinsically evil. Those to whom this vision is not compelling grumble about the apple and the snake.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n

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\u2014 Marilynne Robinson, \u201cHearing Silence: Western Myth Reconsidered\u201d in The True Subject: Writers on Life and Craft<\/em><\/a>\"\" (quoted in Deep Space and Sacred Time: Star Trek in the American Mythos<\/em><\/a>\"\"<\/em> p.4).<\/div>\n
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