fall of man

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Often our reaction to particular celebrity photos plays into an existing narrative: Ben Affleck as a metaphor for the fall of man.

From Slate • Oct. 15, 2020

Homer told the story of ancient Greece in the “Iliad,” Virgil of Rome in the “Aeneid,” John Milton of the fall of man in “Paradise Lost,” and Alexander Pope of 18th-century England in the “Dunciad.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 23, 2017

If Baudelaire leaves you wondering, quietly, whether the fall of man was set in motion by a dropped banana skin, then Bergson’s offering, entitled simply “Laughter,” ushers us toward a more remedial definition.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 8, 2015

A techno study of the fall of man, R.I.P. shifts through rooms of uniquely realised sound, full of squirming electricity, thudding bass and wisps of static.

From The Guardian • Jun. 14, 2012

"Jesus never speaks of Adam, of the Garden of Eden, nor of what is called the fall of man."

From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England by Conway, Moncure Daniel