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13 Mar, 5 tweets, 2 min read
As good a morning as any to read The Old Testament. Illuminating to visit in entirety these vast, ancient texts/their well known edicts. Remarkable how profoundly western lit/thought/art influenced. Every 4th phrase the title of a book, every 3rd a proverb, every scene a painting ImageImageImageImage
East of Eden - John Steinbeck. Genesis 4:16. Cain condemned to a lifetime of wandering after killing Abel and goes east of Eden to the Land of Nod.
Cities of the Plain. By Cormac McCarthy. Reference is to cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. Genesis 13:12
Kane and Abel. Jeffrey Archer.

Genesis 4:1 & 4:2. Sons of Adam
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