      A man named Gaffney dropped by to shake his head reproachfully at Yossarian in his sick-bed. He expressed the idea he had of a primeval Faustian bargain between God, or maybe it was the Devil, and the first man, who perhaps was a woman.
      "I will give you intelligence," submitted the Creator, "enough knowledge to destroy everything on earth, but you will have to use it."
      "Done!" said our ancestor, and that was our Genesis.

Closing Time, Joseph Heller