Adam and Eve

Miles Davis, the jazz trumpeter who seems to have a lock on cool-tone background music, played in the background one afternoon recently as I ordered an Adam and Eve. 

The Adam and Eve is an apple martini, in genre. Or an apple sidecar—it is Calvados based. Or an apple cosmopolitan. It has white cranberry juice, too. But it is a very very elegant drink. As elegant as the idea of taking time off, on the spur of the moment, because you decide you deserve it. Wake up and make lunch plans. Call the office. Why not. 

He in his shirt was no more clad than I in my smock, and thus we were equal man and woman, Adam and Eve. 

London, printed by R. Wood, for Edward Thomas, at the Adam and Eve in Little Brittain,... 

Gardner, Laurence. Genesis of the Grail kings The Pendragon Legacy of Adam and Eve. London Bantam P, 1999. xx, 316 p. ISBN 0-593-04430-4... 

A revision of the author s thesis, Boston University, 1980. Contents Introduction Conjunction the marriage of opposites and the joining of Adam and Eve Multiplication the Garden of Eden as a testament to perfect health Purification the Hell of Saturn Purification the exterior Conclusion Notes Appendix A frequently cited authors Appendix B alchemical books printred between 1460 and 1515... 

Horrobin D (2001). The Madness of Adam and Eve. Bantam Press, London. 

Moreover, any such deep and beautiful allegorical exegesis of the story of Adam and Eve was found frequently to he open to some strictly alchemical explanations. Levi later concluded, in his Histoire de la Magie (1860), that... 

Forman s distrust of women was coupled with an interest in female physiology and morbidity. FFe repeated the humanist account of the model of the womb and ovaries as an inversion of the penis and testes and he was particularly concerned with the womb as a seat of disease. 1° For instance, in a transcription of a medieval manuscript describing the life of Adam and Eve, Forman inserted a list of diseases from which humankind would suffer after the Fall. Because Eve harkened the serpent , women suffered more than seventy diseases specific to their sex, though Forman only recorded fourteen of these. These all related to the womb or the breasts, and were conditions that Forman encountered amongst his patients. ... 

Ashm. 802, ii. I follow the title used by modern scholars. Formans earlier interest in Adam and Eve is documented in his Argument between Forman and death (1585), which concluded with details about Adam and Eve being in Paradise for seven hours, and with the Fall creating death Ashm. 208, fo. 248. 

A page of the Life of Adam and Eve , transcribed and annotated by Simon Forman, Ashm. 802, ii, fo. 2. By permission of the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. 

At the moment that Adam and Eve forsook the food of angels, they learnt disease and death, initiating the suffering and redemption thereafter enacted by humankind. 

In a chapter on the originall causes of all diseases in the greate worlde, and the little worlde, which is man, Bostocke recounted the story of the Fall in order to demonstrate that the binary principle of Galenic medicine, predicated on opposites, was corrupt. The serpent, Binarius , had persuaded Adam and Eve to eat the apple, Whereupon by the curse of God impure Seedes were mingled with the perfect seedes, and did cleave fast to them, and doe cover them as a garment and death was joyned to life. This impurity was in all... 

Du Bartas, Forman, and the elusive I.W. probably drew on similar sources and traditions and their lists suggest an association of the Fall, disease, and alchemy across a spectrum of literature, medical, alchemical, literary, and moral, in sixteenth-century Europe. Forman perused this material in pursuit of information about man, the cosmos, medicine, and disease. He documented what happened when Adam and Eve ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge and sowed the seeds of disease within their bodies. Banished from Paradise, they kept free will and the knowledge of good and evil, the two vehicles by which humankind had thereafter tried to return to the tree of life, once again to eat the food of angels and achieve eternity. 

Almond, Philip, Adam and Eve in Seventeenth Century (Cambridge, 1999). 

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