
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 beautyperhaps the very idea of beautythat existed prior to the complexity and turmoil of modern adult life regardless of any myth of humankind’s origin.