speaking of eating metaphors. statements are food. statements are knowledge. elias is a satanic seducer figure to jon. therefore. his offer of the position of head archivist to jon is analogous to that of satan offering the fruit of knowledge to eve—knowledge in the form of something that can be consumed, knowledge that leads to jon’s Fall. but elias is also god, he’s his maker. jon isn’t being driven out of paradise, he’s being welcomed into elias’s version of it in 160 - “don’t worry jon, you’ll get used to it here”!