Paradise for some is Eden, or br a place that’s vanished and can never regained; br for others it’s a distant time before br the present pressure doomed to be disdained. br It’s possible to trample on a place br regarded as a paradise. Once it’s invaded, br it is devalued as a sacred space, br the separate and distinctive now degraded. br But when the paradise is not confined br to spatial boundaries but extended to br a perfect past envisaged by the mind br it is eternal, though historically untrue.