Carol Cole wrote:
>Bill East wrote:
>>imagine it is. Tilling the earth is a curse consequent upon Adam's
>>sin, so whatever the nature of the paradisus, it did not involve any
>>gardening.
>Well, OK, if the soil is anything like my Michigan clay (aka concrete),
>I agree tilling is a curse. But every gardener's dream is to have soil >so
rich and crumbly that working in it is a joy. I imagine the Garden >of Eden
[was?] something like Milton's, where Adam and Eve putzed around >trimming up
vines--definitely not laborious work.
This is:
1) a slander upon the wonderfully rich, loamy, near-paradisical
truck-gardening soils enjoyed by most right-thinking Michiganders --leastwise
*Southern* Michiganders (those between Indianer and the Very Edge of
Civilisation in Michigan [Kalamazoo]), a province which i've enjoyed touring
through every spring for over 20 years on my way to the Great Hobbknobbing
with my fellow Book Wizards at a little get-together
we arrange for the fish every year. (East Lansing soils are, obviously,
difficult to till due to the proximity of the state capital [in Lansing] and i
suggest the respondant consider moving South and commuting);
b) obviously our Dear, Chubby, Eliastical, Putzingically-Phallenged
Doctor has never had the pleasure of putzing around a well-tended garden and
should, therefore, disqualify himself from all but his usual humorous
entymological expositions on this vital question;
iii) according to the definitive video version of the question given by
Ole Whatisname of Autun (http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/kinney/small/eve.htm )
putzing around in the Garden was something of an extatic experience (at least
for the farther sex).
so much for scripture.
horticulturally yours,
christopher
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