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In which the primordial family grapples with the ceaseless struggle between creation and destruction, embodied by the aged Adam's digging and the warlike Cain's boasting of conquest and death, whilst Eve, caught between them, mourns the fading of wonder and the serpent’s vanished wisdom. Their spirited discourse unfolds amid dreams of a higher life beyond mere survival, with hopes kindled for a time when mankind will live not by bread and battle alone but by something altogether nobler and more divine.
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