Annabel Lee’s Reviews > The Diaries of Adam and Eve > Status Update

“Knowledge had to be acquired by hard work; none of it is flung at our head gratis.”

“At first I couldn’t make out what I was made for, ur now I think it was to search out the secrets of this wonderful world and be happy and thank the Giver of it all for devising it. I think there are many things to learn yet - I hope so; and by economizing and not hurrying too fast I think they will last weeks and weeks.”

On education and becoming educated...
“... if you depend on guessing and supposing and conjecturing you will never get educated” vs. proving things with actual experimentation

“Even trying to find out and not finding out is just as interesting as trying to find out and finding out, and I don’t know but more so”

“That is a good sample of the lack of harmony that prevails in our views of things...”

(continued) “And she is colour-mad...none of them is of practical value... but because they have colour and majesty, that is enough for her, and she loses her mind over them.
If only she could quiet down and keep still a couple minutes at a time, it would be a reposeful spectacle... I recognised that she was beautiful”

Gosh damn romantic I can’t, shows the proposed inherent diff in the male and female psyche

From Adam’s diary
“Perhaps I ought to remember that she is very young, a mere girl, and make allowance. She is all interest, eagerness, vivacity, the world is to her a charm, a wonder, a mystery, a joy. She can’t speak for delight when she finds a new flower, she must pet it and caress it and talk to it and pour out endearing names upon it.”

“That was because the fire had revealed to me a new passion...Fear. And it is horrible! I wish I had never discovered it; it gives me dark moments, it spoils my happiness, it makes me shiver and tremble and shudder. But I could not persuade him, for he has not discovered fear yet, and so he could not understand me”

The art of being fearless, and unfazed in the face of fear.

“It was not good casual art (of using a new big word), still it showed that he possesses a certain quality of perfection. Without a doubt that seed can be made to grow, if cultivated”

Do we humans are seek perfection?

“For brightness is nothing; it is in the heart where the values lie”

“They were forbidden, and he says I shall come go harm; but so I come to harm through pleasing him, why shall I care for that harm?”

Shows Eve’s subservient attitude to Adam, and makes me wonder if it’s really in women’s intrinsic and biological nature to act like that