Word: unfallenness
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...need to see through everything externally--look at yourself. How were you as a child? Play-full? Do you embrace only the handed-down adult games now, the formalized convoluted expressions of drives that you used to express by yourself? Do you skip? Is there a place for unfallen sexual play in your life? Or just fucking? What would I have done 300 years ago for the equivalent shock tactic of a swear word? Why is free and unpredictable movement so threatening on subways? Should I mind when a toddler hurls itself at my crotch and vomits on my wide...
...that was not corrupt, not worn by labor, tainted by inequality or poisoned by greed. This myth of paradise-on-the-frontier pervaded 18th century ideas about America and, by the mid-19th, had become one of the chief regulating ideas of America's discourse about itself: "That unfallen, western world," as Melville wrote in Moby Dick, "which to the eyes of the old trappers and hunters revived the glories of those primeval times when Adam walked majestic as a god." It deeply affected painting as well as literature, and those influences are the subject of Art Historian Barbara...
...distances in the universe might be "God's quarantine precautions" to "prevent the spiritual infection" of fallen mankind from spreading. David Fetcho of the cult-fighting Spiritual Counterfeits Project in Berkeley, Calif., has developed similar ideas. He insists in the S.C.P. Journal that it is unlikely that an "unfallen" race would visit earth. The reason: God would not want to contaminate the visitors with sin. Moreover, they could teach us nothing that God has not already said in the Bible. If races are "fallen," he reasons, they would lack the supertechnology to span the light years and make contact...
Somehow, it's seemed unnecessary to ask that question of dance. Movement has preserved its mystery longest; the essence of dance hasn't been cerebral, but corporeal. Leaps done with the legs, turns of the body--this sort of creation is uniquely sincere. Blake called touch the only unfallen sense. Dance is perhaps the only innocent...
...spite of clamor from indignant traditionalists, Britain's Ministry of Works intends to reerect one of the massive trilithons (three-stone arches) of prehistoric Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain. It fell in 1797 after staying upright for perhaps 3,000 years, and there are accurate drawings that show it unfallen. The ministry will not reerect other trilithons that fell in Roman times or earlier, but it sees nothing false about restoring Stonehenge to its 18th century condition...