Adam’s seed is prelapsarian. During our conception, deep in our parents’ viscera, we receive sin like the pox. We are born screaming with it. But within the seed of the first man, our images are perfect and unblemished. What floats in Adam’s semen is God’s hope for what we all should have been—a perfected history, not what we became outside the gates of Eden.” The monk couldn’t stand any more flirtation.
