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Claudia Befu's avatar

When people imagined paradise they could only go so far into detail. Your short story reveals that paradise sounds boring. Like watching too much Netflix, eating too much ice cream, riding on too many unicorns. Sooner or later you get bored of the ‘good life’.

I also find the idea of paradise dangerous. It makes us believe that this Earth is just the material world in which we’re trapped for a while on our way to paradise. A nuisance. It makes us blind to the beauty of this universe that thrives with life and enables us, for the blink of a moment, to exist and take it all in.

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Elle Griffin's avatar

Totally agree. I don't actually think paradise is boring. My life is very good and beautiful and not at all boring. But I also think I'm pouring paradise into my utopian novel (which I would absolutely love to live in) and I wanted to explore the opposite.

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