Word: serpentes
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...first act is tricky because it's slow--the serpent teaching Adam and Eve the meaning of death, hope and conception with little action and a lot of talk. Again--when you have Paradise as the scene the danger lies in seeming ponderous. Here the solution--as in, say, "The Blue Angel"--is sensuality: it takes care of fluidity, momentum and vividness in a fell swoop if it's used right. Hershman does, by making his serpent a double image, played by two women, Gypsy Knocks and Victoria Kins. They never stop moving, swaying and undulating in a coiling mass...
...Heavenly Angel, may indicate anything from the sea to clouds to the wind. Since many a Chinese opera can run as long as seven hours, the evening's program is wisely limited to climactic excerpts from these and such other large-scale classics as The White Serpent, in which the title character, helped by her maid, the Blue Serpent, struggles with the gods while searching for her husband...
...Well, I just stood there for a while. The serpent was going on about "an apple a day" and so forth. Finally I...I took an apple...
...what the Highest-up said didn't make too much sense. And He didn't say anything about taking fruits but only about eating them. And He didn't really say not to do it but only what would happen if we did. And anyway, I assumed that the serpent must have been acting with the knowledge of the Highest...
...Well, at the time it was my impression that nothing went on in the Garden without the knowledge of the Highest-up. I know that since then there's been a lot of talk, especially from the serpent, about the "Separation of Powers." But, with all due respect, nobody was talking about the Separation of Powers before the burglary of the TKGE. Well, nobody but Adam...