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PARADISE
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As I was wandering with my unhappy thoughts, I looked and saw that I had come into a sunny place— familiar and yet
strange.
“Where am I?” I asked a stranger.
“Paradise.”
“Can this be Paradise?” I asked, surprised, for there were motor cars and factories.
“It is,” he answered. “This is the sun that shone on Adam once,
the very wind that blew upon him, too.
~ Charles ReznikoffÂ