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VIII. Problems. Unfortunately, many romance novel covers reveal an artist's lack of skill. Eden, by Cordia Byers, shows a couple lying in a barn full of hay. But what exactly is the woman leaning on? It's unclear what is supporting her back, though apparently, from the position of her legs, she is leaning on something; perhaps a bale...
...spiritual heritage of western civilization is inscribed within the boundaries of the garden and the city. Eden and the New Jerusalem constitute visions of Paradise that are archetypes for the setting of everyday life from archaic Greece to twentieth-century America. In that each culture possesses its own "construction" of paradise, an examination of these (culture and construction) in parallel is the most rewarding premise for an exploration of human interaction with the visual environment...
...hardly enough, though, to expel a few thousand mid-level bureaucrats from the alleged Eden inside the Washington Beltway. Really purging the Washington culture enough to satisfy its noisiest critics will require a mass exodus on the order of what the Khmer Rouge instituted when they took over Phnom Penh in 1975. Until the very members of the TIME Washington bureau itself are traipsing south along I-95, their word processors strapped to their backs, the nation cannot rest easy. But America's would-be Khmer Rouge should give Senator Byrd more credit for showing...
...stone, so too the battered remnants of natural masterpieces -- bogs and fens, forests and prairies, deserts and coral reefs -- may eventually be restored to some semblance of former glory. In at least a few spots around the globe, the dreamers say, humanity may be able to go back to Eden...
...someone or something must have ruined it. Many cultures possess a form of this myth; it is particularly strong in Western thought because of the Adam and Eve story in the Old Testament. In the 18th century, Jean Jacques Rousseau popularized a secular version of that Eden story with his writings about the Noble Savage. And part of his inspiration for this concept came from his knowledge of the New World. Even Sale's anti-Columbian ideas, it seems, owe more to Columbus than some of his readers might imagine...