The way you've changed! I don't know. You used to be a good, dependable man—ordinary, not too bright maybe, but honest—
and who knows what you done to yourself to get so smart all of a sudden. Like everybody's been saying—it ain't right."
"But what's wrong with a person wanting to be more intelligent, to acquire knowledge, and understand himself and the world?"
"If you'd read your Bible, Charlie, you'd know that it's not meant for man to know more than was given to him to know by the Lord in the first place.
The fruit of that tree was forbidden to man. Charlie, if you done anything you wasn't supposed to—
you know, like with the devil or something—maybe it ain't too late to get out of it.
Maybe you could go back to being the good simple man you was before."
"There's no going back, Fanny. I haven't done anything wrong.
I'm like a man born blind who has been given a chance to see light. That can't be sinful.
Soon there'll be millions like me all over the world. Science can do it, Fanny."
She stared down at the bride and groom on the wedding cake she was decorating
and I could see her lips barely move as she whispered: "It was evil when Adam and Eve ate from the tree of knowledge.
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