Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist. [The world is all that is the case.]
— Wittgenstein (Tractatus 1)
Creation itself was the fall, a burst into the thorny beauty of the real.
— Annie Dillard (1974, 209)
Original sin was committed by God. It is simply the act of creation.
— theological axiom of Finnegans Wake, as summarized by Atherton (1959), 53
O foenix culprit! Ex nickylow malo comes mickelmassed bonum.
— Finnegans Wake, 23