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Forbidden fruit

‘Better not; hardly anyone is pure enough and you can create a lot of havoc with bad intentions. Those are the Brothers of Darkness. Watch out for them!” Michel let everything sink in for a while.
“Are children still conceived among practitioners of this technique?” he then asked.
“They are still being delivered by the stork.”
“Oh great, the stupid jokes are back,” and, making a long face, Michel got up to leave.
“Sorry, sorry, I’ll answer your question seriously. Ordinary mortals are having enough babies to preserve our population. Besides, very advanced children are often born of initiates.”
“I suppose the transcendence of lust is the basis of this,” his guest speculated.
“Indeed, once upon a time, Eve ate the forbidden fruit and ever since then man has been banished from paradise. Now we have to move mountains to repair her mistake.”
“Forbidden fruit?”
“Forbidden fruit is symbolic for male sperm,” François explained, drinking a last cup of tea. “But do you play with yourself, or don’t you?” His friend shook his head sadly and walked out of the room. Incorrigible, that Rabelais!

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