Mark Twain:

“The Diaries of Adam and Eve”:

1) Extracts from Adam´s Diary:

“This new creature with the long hair is a good deal in the way. It is always hanging around and following me about. I don’t like this; I am not used to company. I wish it would stay with the other animals”.

“I wish it would not talk; it is always talking. That sounds like a cheap fling at the poor creature, a slur; but I do not mean it so. I have never heard the human voice before, and any new and strange sound intruding itself here upon the solemn hush of these dreaming solitudes offends my ear and seems a false note”…

The new creature says its name is Eve. That is all right, I have no objections… She has taken up with a snake now. The other animals are glad, for she was always…