But just "out dancing cheek to cheek" constitutes being in heaven even
without the the wine and the bread.

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>From: Carrol Cox <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Canto 93
>Date: Tue, Sep 2, 2003, 8:38 AM
>

> Tim Romano wrote:
>>
>> Rick,
>> I didn't say that Egyptian "PET" and English "paradise" were synonyms.
>> English 'paradise' and English 'heaven' (not 'the heavens') are synonyms to
>> 99.34% of modern native speakers of English.
>
> If they read Milton, Paradise equals Eden.
>
> Heaven equals the afterlife.
>
> They can be synonyms but there are many contexts in which they are not
> synonyms at all. One needs to argue the context rather than assume, as a
> basis for argument, that they are synonyms. I suspect, for example, that
> usually a loaf of bread, a bottle of wine, and thou would constitute not
> heaven enough but paradise enough.
>
> Carrol