Paradise is a word descended from Persian and originally meaning something like walled garden. It has connotations of Eden and the Fall, of flaming sword, cherubim, serpents, knowledge and knowledge of death and life; the word ‘paradise’ inspires visions of the Alhambra in Granada and even the Getty gardens in LA. Paradise lights the imagination like a …
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