“As Adam said when his wife fell out of the tree—Eve’s dropping again.”
Theodore Sturgeon book Venus Plus X
Section 24 (p. 71)
Venus Plus X (1960)
“A little boy and a little girl were looking at a picture of Adam and Eve. "Which is Adam and which is Eve?" said one. "I do not know," said the other, "but I could tell if they had their clothes on."”
Adam and Eve
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XVI - Written Sketches
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