[...] - This reminds me of the story of the Garden of Eden - said Ford.
- Eh?
- The Garden of Eden, the one with the tree and the apple and those who give a bite of the apple. Did you this?
- Yes, certainly.
- Well, there's this God, your God, who places an apple tree in the middle of the garden and says, "Boy, do whatever you want, but do not eat apples." Extraordinary case, they bite into an apple, and here is that he'll jump out from behind a bush shouting "I caught, I caught!" It would not make much difference if they had not eaten the apple.
- Why not?
- Because when you're dealing with that kind of gods, in a trap you fall forever. You know what I would say if they have not eaten?
- No. What?
- "But for God's children ... that is, for me ... you could not take a bite from the tree of knowledge? Now I have to drive you because I can not stand to be with two ignorant, I know everything. "
- You think?
- I think. But you think about eating.
- You remind me of the snake.
- Eat, which must be good.
- You remind me more and more the snake. Arthur allegedly bit into the pear.
- It 's a pear - he said. [...]
"Restaurant at the End of the Universe" by Douglas Adams, 1980, ch. 30, p. 148
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