Adam & Eve

I found this old thing. Obviously I was trying to work out a story idea. It helps me when I write things down.
Adam and Eve story with a romantic, modern spin.
The original must be the basis. They have a beautiful life and no worries. But someone must tempt Eve with something dangerous. The tempter must offer more knowledge for a tiny price. There also must be a God-like figure who will warn them and provide for them. But Eve will be the weak one, as always and she will take the bait and condemn her own self. Adam however will not be able to live without her. He will not let her take the blame by herself and by sacrifice alone, he will partake of the sin. It occurs to me now that Adam and Eve must be the basis for all true love tragedies. This is a love story, first and foremost and their connection must be the backbone, their strength.
They can live in New York City just to modernize the setting. They have fabulous jobs with no money problems. How did they meet? They were always together, maybe they grew up together, next door to each other. Ok now, what kind of life could they have where they don’t want for anything but at the same time, don’t necessarily know anything either? Perhaps Eve’s father is the provider. He wants to protect his little girl so she doesn’t know the injustices that the world holds. That’s sounding a little too Little Buddah for me. We’ll have to work this out some more.
So Adam and Eve are in love. They live in New York City. They are both young and struggling so Eve’s Dad provides for them as they build a foundation for their lives. Ok. Now Eve’s Dad will be the god-like figure? This is a little too predictable. Perhaps one of them has a super cushy job and the company provides for the couple. Adam is a lawyer? Hm… that might work. A partner in a law firm? I think maybe for this to work, someone connected to Eve has to be the provider so that she may be tempted greater. OR perhaps it could be someone connected to Adam, than they would bribe her with her love for Adam as a way to get her to accept the temptation. The more I type, the more I see this as something wacky. Like a Vonnegut allegory. We still need to work out something tempting.
What is the temptation?
What could tempt Eve so much she would not care about the great life she has? What is so tempting? In the original the serpent tempted Eve. Let’s play on that. This is interesting:
In the Wilkepedia Encyclopedia online, the angels expressed their concern over the creation of Adam, possessing something the angels do not: free will, they are worried about his ability to create evil. When God commands them to bow to Adam, one refuses and is banished from heaven. This is what will become Satan.
Apparently two women were created. (???) the first was created at the same time as Adam was but is mentioned nowhere after. The second woman was created out of Adam, and is named for the Hebrew word, living, Eve. Ok. Lilith. Now there’s an interesting character...
Lilith being the same as Adam, created the same and equal in every way was not satisfied with Eden and left. Than Adam was alone and to appease him, God made Eve who was subservient to him and that pleased Adam.(?)
She could for all intensive purposes be a woman, The Provider. According to this story, the forbidden fruit contains the knowledge of sex, sexuality and reproduction. This sounds like such feminist bullshit. But it could make some sense.
Ok for all intensive purposes, Eden could be anywhere in the world, It could even be a state of mind. As long as its blissful or happy or perfect and leaves our couple wanting nothing. Yeah, yeah we got figured that much already. What we need is a villain and a conflict. I am hoping that once we figure out Adam and Eve’s background, the conflict will magically appear to us. Lets try that.

Ok. Adam and Eve grew up in a small town in upstate New York. They went to the same school and were best friends. Hmm…. Maybe not. Or maybe so! Maybe Eve always had a crush on Adam but he began dating Lilith! And then-oh shit I smell Dawson’s creek. Ok enough self-abuse. So lets just say that happens. Finally they get together and all is well. They move to the big city and get great jobs. Adam is made a partner in his law firm, they want for nothing. But one day Eve is propositioned by someone. With something very tempting….oh shit. Would have to be Browning, wouldn't it?

"Adam, Lilith and Eve" (1883)
Poem by Robert Browning where a thunderstorm drives Lilith to confess that she truly loved Adam, and Eve to confess that she truly loved another man. After the storm is over, Adam naively laughs and dismisses their tales as falsehoods.

Eve was innocent in her betrayal. Meaning she did nor know she deceiving or being deceived. She didn’t know. Naieve. But he must make her doubt that which she has been told is right and true. Lets make this a Robbins-esque type story. Lets weave many different webs together at the climax. Ok. I think that’s a good idea. Ok lets work with characters now:

What if Adam was a vet? He was given domain over all the animals so maybe he could be a vet? That might be cool.


Any ideas for me? Not sure if that could still work. But something may sprout from something which may give birth to something else and the dark matter will ignite and create the spark, I so desperately need.

The Reason Train

So the earth is good. Life is good. Things do what they will do, what they always have done and what they always will do. We mean nothing in the grand scheme of things. Babies are born, children discover, people go to work and then you die. This is all just a blink of an eye. I look back through 26 years of life. I realize it is all cycles. It all comes in waves and ripples, like the ocean. “Everything comes and goes, marked by lovers and styles of clothes”, so says the wise Joni Mitchell. Like the random spiraling debate patterns of someone I know. It’s all confusing, it’s all chaos, and most of the time, much of that is fine. It’s a chaos that either we have grown accustomed to, or that we have always known. But then there are these moments, few and far between, like stars, where things become clear. The world slows down just long enough for you to grab the end of the reason train and let it whip you around in it’s wake for a while. Of course you cant hang onto this forever and eventually you will have to let go, but for that instant or for those moments, life is good. Life is cotton candy and kittens, and sex and laughter. And it becomes clear that perfection exists only in moments. It is the perfect moment where you look around and see your friends laughing and smiling. You look up and the stars are twinkling. You look down and the ants are crawling, not biting you, just crawling over you. Then someone tells you you have a nice smile and you realize things are good. Things are perfect. These are the moments that make the whole thing worthwhile. All of the heartache, and longing, and pain and suffering. This is the spot, this is the moment. This is the crescendo of the day’s song. The multiverse can do what it wants. Here is now, and now is good.