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S1E9 | God, Etc. (with Jesse Eisenberg, Benjamin Nugent, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Kristen Dombek)

The Paris Review

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Paradise or Heaven?

Not knowing the difference between heaven and paradise, he called them both heaven. So when he shrugged at the thought of a God blanched in the lights of implausible heights, thumbing the armrests of a throne, that was heaven too. And nothing changed about either paradise or heaven for it. Paradise retained its earthen glamour and heaven, because it can't stand for anything on its own like the color of rice or a bomb, was happy to play along. Was happy just to be happy for once, and not an excuse for mayhem. I'm Rono Cardo-Philips. This is Kingdom Come.

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