Chaos? The inability to control the thoughts that may lead to your salvation or your destruction? Human beings have never been any good at holding back our impulse no matter how much the curse may hang over our heads. C.S. Lewis understood it well. The Magician's Nephew was faced with this verse.
Make your choice, adventurous Stranger
Strike the bell and bide the danger
Or wonder, till it drives you mad
What would have followed if you had
Is there any doubt what he did?
C.S. Lewis was a master writer, he knew his craft well.
I dare say he is very underrated by critics and ignored undeservedly by many.
I still have my copies of the Chronicles of Narnia somewhere.