The positive side of beeing a non native English language and litterature lover is that a new word really comes to you blank, brand new. The neg. side is that you make mistakes, misspellings and miss guesses.
I'm referring , not to prelapsarian of which we got the immediate explanation but to another word new to me in the fragment quote:
bucolic . I had to look it up and expected a tantrum sort of a word. Great was my surprise that it meant: arcadian, rural and more of these peaceful words.
I connected (at first sight ) bucolic with alcoholic, diabolic, workoholic,colic.
This from memory, maybe there are more words ending in 'olic' that are not on the peaceful side of life. Or just on the bucolic side. Anyway I was surprised and I'm sure not the one who could explain it. One of you perhaps.