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Genesis

General References

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Creation and Fall/Temptation, 13-40
Ann Lauterbach, “Genesis (Eden),” Communion, p. 451-466
Joyce Carol Oates, “Genesis (Eden) and John,” Communion, p. 253-270
Jorge Luis Borges, “Compass,” translated by Richard Wilbur, New and Collected Poems, p. 164)

“Compass”

All things are words of some strange tongue, in thrall
To Someone, Something, who both day and night
Proceeds in endless gibberish to write
The history of the world.