This week's Shouts & Murmurs" in the New Yorker magazine is dealing (tongue in cheek) with our ability to let others do important work and then "comment" on how they didn't do it right.
The column deals with God doing his first six days of work here on earth. Following is a sampling.
COMMENTS
Not sure who this is for. Seems like a fix for a problem that didn't exist. Liked it better when the earth was without form, and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep.
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One of them is going to eat something off that tree You told them not to touch.
Beta version was better. I thought the Adam-Steve dynamic was much more compelling than the Adam-Eve work-around.
Adam was obviously created somewhere else and then just put here. So, until I see some paperwork proving otherwise, I question the legitimacy of his dominion over any of this.
Not enough action. Needs more conflict. Maybe put in a whole bunch more people, limit the resources, and see if we can get some fights going. Give them different skin colors so they can tell each other apart.
Seems to me we've finally got this last "comment" accomplished.
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