Prelapsarian

Prior to the fall of man (presumably the expulsion from Eden). Innocent.

Found in William Gibson's Spook Country.

«…sense of some peripheral and prelapsarian beauty.»

It's actually quite a nice turn of phrase. There's something quite poetic about the idea that there is a kind of beauty—perhaps the very idea of beauty—that existed prior to the complexity and turmoil of modern adult life regardless of any myth of humankind's origin. 

 

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