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Thank you very much.

Mary Kay suggested I think about Adam and Eve.

That gave me a pause for thought.

And it's surprising if you let something settle,

how it might bring you a little bit further on.

Anyway, thanks to her.

And thank you all for coming out tonight.

Sit back.

Close your eyes. Anyway,

don't fall asleep. A couple of weeks ago, the Pope described fake news as being like the

strategy employed by the crafty serpent in the book of Genesis. The strategy of this skilled father of lies, he said,

in a statement aimed at both Trump and the purveyors of social media,

is precisely mimicry,

that sly and dangerous form of seduction that worms its way

into the heart with false and alluring arguments.

Ideas of mimicry and seduction certainly wormed their way into the story of Adam and Eve over the

centuries, but they're not in the original version. If even the Pope misuses the word seduction in this context,

it's worth looking for the source. He got it from the first letter from St. Paul to Timothy,

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