Adam's Dilemma

Once Eve offers Adam the forbidden fruit, he loses his innocence, and together are exiled from the Garden of Eden. Yet, somehow, the fruit's poison has inflicted Adam more to the core. Thus, he becomes forever the predator, and Eve the prized prey, his object of desire. Alas, the potency of the poison can never be underestimated.

Oh, how Adam worships Eve, after all, she is created from his rib. Of course, all is fine and dandy as things are destined to be, yet the modern Adam faces a dilemma, beyond bread and butter, the burden of thousand years' evolution on his shoulders...

As natural selection decrees, only the fittest, finest specimens will mate. So Adam gets to sow his seeds, produces offspring, watches the beauty of the seasons with Eve, if not Eves. But what happens to the others, to the rejected Adams? You saw that coming, didn't you? They too idolise Eves, and are too profoundly "cursed" by the apple - or was it a pomegranate? Whatever - to be unscathed, untainted. This younger Adam would have preferred a practical solution, but with age, comes emotional complication. This is especially the case for an Adam with an almost completely-Eve's brain. Like Eileen Chang depicted, an Eve can't seem to separate that damned, sticky exercise of fluid exchange from the web of love itself.

And that is the gist of this Adam's dilemma, leaden on his mind...