The Princess and I went to the Musée des Beaux Arts recently. Oh yes, we grudge no exertion in dredging up material for readers of the Bulletin’s website.
We stopped in front of the Lucas Cranach picture of Adam and Eve and I told her the story which made a significant impression. We went over it a number of times (“tell me again, again, again about Adam and Evil”)
Later in the day she asked me, “Mummy, what are Adam and Evil’s full names?
Me: Adam and Eve and those are their full names.
Her: But their surnames?
Me: Nope, they haven’t got surnames.
Her: Fancy that! [Pause] But normally (too much exposure to the language of Voltaire) we have surnames, Mummy.
A couple of days after this I gave her an apple and she looked daggers at me. “God will be cross with me for eating the apple,” she said indignantly.
on 14 March 2006 at 09:09
Dr TS, you are funny. Do I know you or are you just a random internet person? 
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on 14 March 2006 at 09:12
She is absolutely fantastic – Adam and Evil indeed.
I suspect she might well have chomped her way through the apple of knowledge already. 0
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on 14 March 2006 at 14:57
Why, is your surname Pratt or something? It’d be one hell of a shot in the dark.. 0
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on 14 March 2006 at 18:07
I think the good doctor is on to something! It would explain the word “pratfall”. ���
on 22 March 2006 at 12:51
I only ask because I’m a quarter Pratt. 0
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