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... how California is not a mere paradise but also having a bearing to the Garden of Eden. Furthermore, since there are wild, untrammeled, and rugged forest lands in the North Atlantic states; deserts in Arizona and New Mexico. California is another matter, truly an oasis, then once again we can see an image of California as being a desert garden. There are numerous accounts of examples across the pages that seem to expose a penetrating contemplation on the author’s part when viewing California as the Garden of Eden. While this summation serves to demonstrate how California is a garden, Marías critical meditation continues by claiming California to be "Paradise Lost." even in the least prosperous or well-to-do sections which are, if one looks carefully, very sordid and depressingly ugly (East Los Angeles), lend to those shoddy remnants of Paradise, then that is unveiling another of Marías’ critical approaches to how California can be seen as Paradise Lost. Moreover, since "where there is no Paradise at all is in the old town because there the city is decaying under the sordidness that crept over it; it has ‘fallen away,’" then once more Marías’ critical examination implements a comparison between Paradise and Paradise Lost to further iterate his analysis of Paradise. In the time that this summation serves as another example of the author’s applied logical concepts for California to be perceived as Paradise Lost, the word paradise functions also as the absence of limitation due to Marías’ further critical meditation of paradise. Marías acknowledges paradise as the absence of limitation. In other words, Marías interprets paradis...