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 * Heading:** Ryan Tae (9E)
 * Question:** What is the author portraying when he writes, “Perhaps, in the old days, they ate knowledge too fast”?
 * Title:** Don't Eat Too Fast!

In the book of Stephen Vincent Benet __By the Waters of Babylon__, too much knowledge leads people of the Dead Places to destruction. When John arrives at the place of gods, everything around him was destroyed. Gaining insights about the real doom of the gods, John describes how he “saw them with wisdom beyond wisdom and knowledge beyond knowledge. And yet not all they did was well done." The knowledge of the gods was immense. The gods were able to use knowledge to advance in science and technology. They created airplanes, built tunnels under rivers, and made everything they desired from the ground. However, as John mentioned, their too much knowledge of technology was detrimental to them, as their creation of super weapons, such as atomic bombs, brought an end to their lives. Their knowledge and technological production was so powerful and destructive that “even after the city had become a Dead Place, for many years the poison was still in the ground.” The knowledge itself was not pernicious; but by absorbing knowledge too fast without thinking about the consequences of it, the gods were not able to control their byproducts of knowledge and led to death. In the end, John realized that eating knowledge too fast is harmful and it would be best for his people to gain knowledge little by little.