MLN 125 (2010): 1050–1074 © 2011 by The Johns Hopkins University Press
The Passion According to Cixous:
From Human Blindness to Animots
Irving Goh
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil
you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it
you shall die
(Genesis 2: 17)
So when the woman saw that the tree was good
for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and
that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she
took of its fruit and ate; and she also gave some to
her husband, who was with her, and he ate. Then
the eyes of both were opened, and they knew
that they were naked. . . . They heard the sound
of the Lord God walking in the garden at the time
of the evening breeze, and the man and his wife
hid themselves from the presence of the
Lord God among the trees of the garden
(Genesis 3: 6–8)
Then the Lord God said, “See, the man has
become like one of us, knowing good and evil
(Genesis 3: 22)