Fruit of the Tree

When God created the garden though he had every understanding of benches he added none. Everything he made was made to make itself. He much preferred the elegance of this small upkeep, which of him only required attention to the weather.

When Adam was created he was not conscious of there being anything outside of God's creation, and he recognized himself as God's finest. He had no desire to create anything himself, and when Eve was created he felt satisfied that he'd contributed to creation all he needed.

Eve felt somewhat different about creation because she wasn't at all clear on whether indeed Adam had been her means of inception or whether it was God's doing. Eve felt even a bit jealous of Adam's ease among the other animals and plants.

There were moments she was so disgusted with Adam's comfort that she would arrange rocks into a formation for laying on and lay upon their unliving form. So we can say, indeed, it was Eve who created the bench, and we can further say God was then after quite suspicious of her.

The first creation of the garden was the Tree. Although Adam is credited as the reflection of God, it is safe to say this Tree was a more accurate depiction because this tree was aware of all things and that was God's defining feature. It is also interesting to note that as high as the branches rose into the air and cushioned their fruit so deeply did the black roots embrace their dark ground.

Eve, unfortunately for her husband, was quite more enamored with this Tree than him. She constructed herself a small bench underneath it and spent most of her days lounging there examining the Tree with curiosity. The Tree felt her rocks press upon the soil over its roots and with some measure of defiance flexed its thickness there.

The more the Tree expanded its roots under the bench the more Eve needed more rocks to keep a flat surface. So over Eve's bench was a peculiar mass of branches to match the growing vigor of the roots below. This section was so lush that the fruit grew not larger but somehow denser. The Tree exerted itself into these fruits more so than it did on any other of its branches.

One day, as Eve was rearranging her rocks prior to her next shift of lounging, a fruit from the Tree fell unavoidably and quite directly on her head. She had never thought to eat of this Tree before, because she knew God wanted nothing to eat the fruit. The reasoning he'd provided was that the fruit must be allowed to fall and seed new trees or rot into new flesh for the garden.

However, she'd never seen a new tree sprout from the fallen fruit. As she was wondering on this a snake appeared from a crevice in her bench. She asked it whether it’d ever seen a tree sprout from a fruit of the Tree. The snake shrugged as much as any creature can shrug that lacks shoulders, and slithered back into the bench. She'd never been inclined to question God's word before, but she'd never previously noted a discrepency.

Moving rocks was quite fierce work, and as she regarded this fruit she realized how hungry she was. Contrary to popular belief, the first bite of the fruit provided no revelation. In fact she'd quite eaten the whole thing and put it on her bench before she began to feel different.

She stared at the core of the fruit -- the skinny stalk had a few seeds bulging in its middle. The fruit quickly browned before her and she watched it without rest for several weeks until it was nothing but a few seeds on her rock. She realized that this happened to all fruits, even the fruit from the Tree.

Was she like this fruit? Would God let her rot into a stalk until only her seeds were left? Would God be inclined to consume her? Why should she eat a fruit when she would only need eat another? How could things not last forever?

Eve had no idea what to do with this information. She was racked with anguish because Adam did not understand either. He was doubly perplexed at her creating things to dress herself in. Once she'd looked at the core she began to examine her own body for the browning, shriveling, consuming force of age. She thought she perceived some in the lines of her knuckles, and the calluses of her feet, and the hue of her hair.

She attempted her best at disguising these features with vast nettings of leaves, dead butterflies, and fish scales. But none of her efforts appeased her. She was so upset that for the first time she cried and Adam was astounded and deeply disturbed by this development. At first Eve wanted to protect Adam from this sadness and so she refused to explain, but at length Adam's sympathetic kisses convinced her.

She took him to the bench, and standing on it she plucked a fruit from the Tree. She told him that she had eaten the fruit. Adam felt true anger the first time in his existence. How could Eve dare to eat the fruit from the Tree! This was as if she'd eaten a piece of Adam himself! And why did she feel sad now that she'd eaten it? He was deeply offended.

He took the fruit from her hand and ate a bite himself. Feeling no great change from the one bite he ate the whole fruit in a fury and then threw it to the base of the tree. Following some reflection, Adam realized he'd just eaten a part of himself and promptly vomited. He found himself entranced with the vomitus, as he had never before regurgitated anything, and looked from it to the fruit’s core then back.

He sat down on the bench under the weight of the most significant, perhaps the only, question he’d ever asked himself: what was he made out of?

Why God had not been inclined to intervene before can not be rightly understood but he did intervene now and with great resentment. His creations had both eaten part of him and now would never regard him with the innocence and obedience they once had. Eve was creating things right and left, and Adam had been so smug that he'd not prevented her.

God decided as a punishment that first the couple should be separated from the Tree because their knowledge would improve with every fruit. He cast them from the garden and then said to them,

"Eve, because you wanted creation so you will be cursed with it forever more." And thus was Eve hollowed out and given a uterus.

"Adam, because you were so pleased with her creations," which was a very nasty thing for God to say as Adam had not noticed them hardly whatsoever; "your greatest pleasure will always be giving her the burden of it." And thus God pulled some of Adam’s penis into his body, stretched it back out separately as a pouch, and in the heated clamp of his divine fist created Adam’s testicles.