PARADISE. ANYBODY FOUND it yet? Anybody got a clue?<br >Well， yes and no.<br > It is an innately mischievous question， this one we ask each<br >other about heaven on earth. If you asked me where it was， I<br >wouldn t answer Florida， though someone from Ohio just might.<br >Perhaps it s accurate to say， however， that any serious quest for a para-<br >disiacal destination begins--and more often- ends， by default--here<br >in the Sunshine State， where northern proprieties are unbuttoned by<br >what Isaac Bashevis Singer has described as our "planned hedonism，"<br >whimsically pursued within a master plan of some very heady bio-<br >spheric seductions.<br > There s our weather， for instance; sublime and， alternately，<br > Bob Shacochis went tropical early on: all of this Virginian s books are set<br > in Florida and the tropics. Shacochis won the American Book Award in<br > 1985for his novel Easy in the Islands.<br >