fool's paradise

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Definition of fool's paradisenext
as in hell

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  1. hell
  2. dystopia
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  • The face appears on the lower left side of The Last Judgement where the dead are rising from the ground before either ascending to paradise or descending to hell.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 5 Nov. 2026
  • His second, a collaboration with the Times puzzle editor Tracy Bennett, was a hefty Sunday puzzle rife with just-for-the-hell-of-it wordplay.
    — New York Times, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2026
Definition of hell
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  • Cold blues and metallic shadows to evoke the tech-dystopia of Minority Report.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 8 Nov. 2026
  • In a moment when utopia remains nowhere but dystopia seemingly everywhere, what’s the utility of this particular narrative, of any of these stories?
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of dystopia
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