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Like Eve Before You

As you asked me not to open the door, I shouldn't have— but what are shoulds?

Bluebeard's last wife suggests that they consider the fate of the first wife: "What was the first one curious about, what could she have seen?"

'It is the key that leads to the kingdom of the unimaginable,' he said. His voice was low and had in it the timbre of certain great cathedral organs that seem, when they are played, to be conversing with God.

D'abord il faut désobéir To begin with, I mean to disobey:

I seemed reborn in his unreflective eyes, reborn in unfamiliar shapes. I hardly recognized myself from his descriptions of me and yet, and yet might there not be a grain of beastly truth in them? And, in the red firelight, I blushed again, unnoticed, to think he might have chosen me because, in my innocence, he sensed a rare talent for corruption.

Eve, the "mother of all the living," shoulders the blame for our loss of innocence and the accompanying curse of mortality.56 Tertullian called women the "devil's gateway and accused them of bringing death into the world. Interestingly, though the story of Eve's temptation is often framed as the sexually charged scene of a double seduction (the snake tempts Eve, and Eve in turn lures Adam into transgression), it is knowledge that Eve seems to crave more than anything else. "But the serpent said to the woman, 'You will not die; for God knows that when you eat of [the fruit] your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil " (Gen. 3:4-5). Woman's intellectual curiosity, as we have seen from the story of Bluebeard, is easily translated into sexual curiosity and, from there, linked with deception, duplicity, and seductive sexuality. Yet it is also possible to read the story of the Fall in very different terms, as a story about the search for knowledge and about the collapse of a form of authority based on a willingness to be excluded from knowledge.

[ I ] can't quite explain this frond of selfhood that waved from time to time in the mistrals of Eve's heart. It wasn't that she didn't love God; she did, for vast tracts of time as much as Adam did, [...] and yet. And yet, you see ...? There was something in Eve I can only describe as the first cramped inkling of ... well, of freedom.

'You do not deserve this,' he said. 'Who can say what I deserve or no?' I said. 'I've done nothing; but that may be sufficient reason for condemning me.' 'You disobeyed him,' he said. 'That is sufficient reason for him to punish you.' 'I only did what he knew I would.' 'Like Eve,' he said.

Dear blade, so what the truncated future?

like eve before you

George Frederic Watts, Eve Tempted (detail) • Vievee Francis, "Apologia" • Edmund Blair Leighton, The Keys (detail) • Maria Tatar, Secrets Beyond the Door: The Story of Bluebeard and His Wives • Angela Carter, "The Bloody Chamber" • Heinrich Aldegrever, Adam and Eve • Gustave Doré, Illustration for "Blue Beard" • Paul Dukas, Ariane et Barbe-bleue • Glen Duncan, I, Lucifer • Hans Baldung Grien, Eve, Serpent and Death • Erika Steiskal, Illustration for "The Bloody Chamber"

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