Prometheus delivered stolen fire man, Eve, serpent, delivered man self — Neel Burton, Better Worse: Get Married?

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Just as Prometheus delivered stolen fire to man, so Eve, and the serpent, delivered man into self-consciousness, setting him up, were it not for his short lifespan, as rival to God. At the same time, man’s self-consciousness removed him from nature into a life of toil, doubt, fear, guilt, shame, blame, enmity, loneliness, and frailty—and the product of this separation, the fruit and flower of this exile, is, of course, culture. ��?God,’ said the writer Victor Hugo, ��?made only water, but man made wine.

Neel Burton, For Better For Worse: Should I Get Married?

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