The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil

Adam is bored out of his skull. He gets a little bitchy and says to god, you've made all these other animals like a mate, and where's mine? And god says, yeh. Well, you know, maybe that wouldn't be such a bad idea, since it seemd to work for everyone else. So he hypothetically takes adam apart slightly and takes out a rib and makes eve. And ah, now there's adam and Eve, and that seems to be better. They're cavorting around in the garden, happy as clams. There's a snake. The story says the snake was the most subtle, subtill s u b t i l,...