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Paradise Regained

noun

  1. an epic poem (1671) by John Milton.


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By the end of ten weeks, he had won imaginary tickets to all the London theaters, boxes of linen handkerchiefs, silk umbrellas, a mirror, and a coveted collector’s copy of Paradise Regained from Hurley, while Hurley had won from Shackleton a shaving mirror, several top hats, enough walking sticks to equip a regiment, several sets of cuff links, and a library of books, as well as dinner at Claridge’s Hotel in London and a box at the opera.

Yes, it’s unreasonable, but I want to extend the pristine magic of our homecoming, this weekly installment of paradise regained.

He pointed out a link between the Tissot drawings and his own “Paradise Regained,” from 1968: a suite of six images that begins with a well-dressed young couple sitting and facing the camera in an empty apartment.

The spiritual dimension of “Paradise Regained” is balanced by the artist’s tongue-in-cheek view of urban life, where men and women only return to a natural state indoors, where everything is unnatural.

He shot casually composed candid stills, in saturated color, of older South Beach residents, many of them Holocaust survivors, enjoying a kind of paradise regained, replete with palm trees and balmy weather.

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