The doorbell rang, and Lucy opened the door. "Good evening. There's a certified letter for you, and I need your signature on this receipt." She signed the receipt, and the mailman left.
Among the bundle of letters, she found a catalogue titled "The Prohibited Tree". Actually, Lucy hadn't ordered the catalogue; it was addressed to the current resident.
"My dear, I'm leaving for Alfred's house!".
From another room, Lucy replied to her husband: "Take a coat with you, it's getting cold."
By sheer curiosity, she fumbled through the pages of the catalogue: a model dressed in expensive clothes, jewelry, rings, pearls and all sorts of ornaments. The caption under a photograph read: "Be yourself. Buy these dresses..."; the price was too prohibitive for Lucy and John's little income.
An entire section of the catalogue was dedicated to cosmetics: perfumes, lipsticks, hair-dyes, and everything a woman could ever wish to achieve beauty. Before and after pictures had captions such as "Know your true beauty..."
The next section contained photographs of provocative models posing with uncovered thighs, wearing colorful miniskirts. The last page of the catalogue had a caption that read: "Don't go naked. Cover yourself with cotton." Lucy looked at her dress and said to herself: "These are rags..."
When John returned, Lucy showed him the catalogue. So he bought her that dress, and she bought him that suit. And that medallion. And that pearl collar. In a magical instant, they bought every desirable item to discover beauty. And they covered their shame of nakedness. Very soon their savings for the future baby were gone, and they were made poor in a magical instant.
"My family does not deserve to be broke! God, it was the woman you gave me!", protested John. "It was only a catalogue! God, you allowed junk mail", blamed Lucy. "I was just doing my job..." answered the mailman.
So they all blamed God for creating information.
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