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Many good liars have no imagination at all; it’s that which gives their lies such wide-eyed conviction.
“We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not,” said the witch, “or die of despair.
Dust was the physical evidence for original sin.
But think of Adam and Eve like an imaginary number, like the square root of minus one: you can never see any concrete proof that it exists, but if you include it in your equations, you can calculate all manner of things that couldn’t be imagined without it.
