But whether in Marco Polo or James Hilton (and his Lost Horizon), paradise is likely to look more human than paradisal as soon as a human lands there.
When American officials told of great atomic explosions that would devastate their paradisal speck of coral, sand and palms, Bikini's Magistrate Juda took counsel.
At the Eden in Rome ("Truly paradisal," says Fielding), their room turned out to be tiny and cramped, overlooking a courtyard that was "like an echo chamber"; at the Athens Hilton .
Anthony Burgess in hotpress.com (subscription) Anthony Burgess, a witness for the defence, wrote that the book's "collocation of misfits, perverts and predators snarls in a symbiosis that makes Dante's hell seem paradisal. This society is not (which our amateur censors appear to think) Selby's...