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...bubble will be filled with natural light by day and will glow from internal light by night. The architects regard the structure as a prototype for whole communities living in a "Garden of Eden" environment protected from unfavorable climates...
...Freudian symbols on horseback. All are flamboyantly colorful creations. And a few of the film's conceits are breathtaking to behold, from the gauzy blue-grey magic of a sequence in which Giulietta's grandfather succumbs to a lady bareback rider to her neighbor's improbable Eden - an art-nouveau fleshpot in rainbow hues where sinners can slide a chute from bed to swimming pool or repair to a tree house devised for impromptu seductions...
Seychelles were the lost site of the Garden of Eden. His reasoning: they are the only source of the fabled coco de mer, whose giant 40-lb. fruit, long valued as a love potion, must have been what Eve really fed to Adam...
First settled by the French and their imported African slaves in the 18th century, the Seychelles (pronounced say-shells) could still pass for Eden. Brightly colored fish dart through their warm clear waters, and frigate birds chase booby birds through the heavy air. Under the cinnamon trees, giant tortoises park fender-to-fender to escape the sun. So carefree is life on the islands (pop. 46,000) that few Seychellois work more than half a day, and nearly half their children are illegitimate. At Victoria, the ramshackle capital on the island of Mahe, the town clock, a silver-painted model...
...this reason, perhaps because Jane Addams was not the daughter of an overbearing Breueresque daddy, the Freudian discovery of the inner self did not breed a characteristically European pessimism when it reached these shores, but instead sparked the effort to recover a lost state of bliss, a pre-adolescent Eden that had never felt the dead hand of patriarchal restraint. What developed instead of a sense of cosmic fatalism (and its consequent strain of apocalyptic rebellion, one supposes) was an exaggerated respect for social manipulation, a penchant for forcing youth and growth into accepted social channels. Addams, Ben Lindsey...