"So the sundering we sense between nature and culture
lies not like a canyon outside us, but splits our being
at its most intimate depths the way mind breaks off from body.
It is still another version of that bitter bifurcation
long ago decreed— our expulsion from Eden…."
— William H. Gass in Finding a Form ,
Cornell U. Press paperback, 1997, page 138
See also…
For another bitter bifurcation, see La Despedida .