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Paradise Lost book review

if life ever came

By ArnoldPublished 2 years ago 3 min read

God has two gardens, one is Paradise Lost and the other is Paradise Restoration. There are two trees in the garden, one is the tree of life and the other is the tree of wisdom. Step into Paradise Lost, and you will find the tree of wisdom. Entering Paradise, you will find the Tree of Life. "Paradise Lost" by Junichi Watanabe, a heart-pounding incestuous love, a shocking ending with a smile, is also full of the interweaving of fantasy and reality, spirit and flesh, joy and pain. Is death the only way to keep love alive? My answer is: love that can stand up to family is true love. Hisagi and Rinko, after pursuing a short-lived passion, began to escape from social attributes and smoking life, so that they chose to be at the peak of pleasure and chose death to freeze it. But is death the only way to keep love alive? Or what is love? Death is eternal, and what is eternal is immutable and lifeless. To be alive, it cannot be eternal. So love is fresh and alive. So love is not death. Love is life, it is ups and downs, it is full of flavors, it travels through the trivial matters in life, and depicts countless beautiful memories. In this regard, what's wrong with long-lasting love? It is true love that sublimates into family love. Love is noble, and marriage is sacred. Beautiful love also needs worldly dust, and it will also be corroded by years. Beautiful love requires management and wisdom. Vigorous love will eventually be attributed to dullness. The important thing is whether you are willing to take on this responsibility after the dullness. However, for me, marriage is even more sacred. Marriage is the sublimation of love, the sacred above the sacred, and the mutual companionship after the passion has turned weak. Sex and love are one. Sex because of love, and love because of sex, which intensifies. However, when it comes to sex, men and women have vastly different feelings. Watanabe wrote: The madness is followed by an extraordinary silence, a deadly silence that reveals the shadow of death shrouded in the extreme of love. Women dream of death in full happiness, men are bound by death in the prostration of depravity. Just like this metaphor, women are musical instruments, such as the harp, and only a good luthier can play an unparalleled piece of music. Women are also more than flower seeds, and they need to be nurtured by nurserymen before they can bloom beautifully. It is precisely such subtle differences that make it more beautiful and pure. Even so, sex and love are intertwined. The so-called ecstasy is only about emotion, and emotion is a thing, and it is unclear and unclear, ancient and modern, China and foreign countries. Beautiful sex, its softness is like falling birds and colorful, and its surging place is like a gust of wind and butterflies. Is living a paradox? Haruki Murakami said that death is not the opposite of life, but will last forever as a part of life. But when faced with death, how many people are indifferent? However, death is something that cannot be avoided. The only thing that can be opposed to it is love. A person who is about to die, as long as he has the person he loves around, he will be able to calm down and forget his fear. The source of art and life are higher than life. I want to come to "Paradise Lost" because of the Abe Sada incident, but Watanabe Junichi can carve the words so beautifully, blend the scenes, and set off this indecent love into a beautiful place. Watanabe's early works belong to the medical school, most of which are closely related to the theme of life and death, and describe the rough fate of the characters. For decades, he has persistently explored the love between men and women. After years of accumulation in art and life, he finally wrote Paradise Lost in his sixtieth year. The details of many literary highlights are remarkable, such as the first description of sex from the perspective of physiology and social ethics; such as the six chapters in the book, the title of each chapter is related to solar terms or time, which implies that the two love and destiny.

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