آدم و حوا

آخرهای کتاب Timequake یه تیکه از یه نمایش‌نامه هست در مورد آدم و حوا. خدا هر سال می‌اومده درِ خونه‌ی آدم و حوا و ازشون می‌پرسیده اوضاع چه‌طوره و این دو تا هم همیشه می‌گفته‌اند همه چیز ردیفه. تا این‌که یه بار به خدا می‌گن همه چیز خوبه فقط اگر یه روزی همه چیز تموم بشه خیلی ردیف‌تر می‌شه اوضاع!

That puts me in mind of a scene from a play of George Bernard Shaw's, his manmade timequake Back to Methuselah. The whole play is ten-hours long! The last time it was performed in its entirety was in 1922, the year I was born. The scene: Adam and Eve, who have been around for a long time now, are waiting at the gate of their prosperous and peaceful and beautiful farm for the annual visit from their landlord, God. During every previous visit, and there have been hundreds of them by now, they could tell Him only that everything was nice and that they were grateful. This time, though, Adam and Eve are all keyed up, scared but proud. They have something new they want to talk to God about. So God shows up, genial, big and hale and hearty, like my grandfather the brewer Albeit Lieber. He asks if everything is satisfactory, and thinks He knows the answer, since what He has created is as perfect as He can make it. Adam and Eve, more in love than they have ever been before, tell Him that they like life all right, but that they would like it even better if they could know that it was going to end sometime.

بیایید ما هم دعا کنیم همه چیز یه روزی ردیف‌تر بشه.

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