Some words

[effervescible]

An interesting passage I read in The Life of Pi tonight (thanks for the rec, Char.)

"...these people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. They should direct their anger at themselves. For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart. Meanwhile, the lot of widows and homeless children is very hard, and it is to their defence, not God's, that the self-righteous should rush."

~Yaan Martel

Comments

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

Have you finished it yet? It's utterly awesome.

[jaina.livejournal.com]

Finished it today!

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

I cried and cried and cried. Especially when the Japanese suits decided they liked the first story better.

[jaina.livejournal.com]

I'm still trying to work it out in my head. To you, was the implication that the non-animal story was actually the true one, for reals? Or was it one of those "it is up to you, the reader~" things?

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

I thought it was the decision that the greater truth-- the better truth-- was important. The animal story was the true one-- it was just a metaphor for what happened. The tiger was still there, it just wasn't literal-- it was a piece of him, that allowed him to survive-- and it went away when he reached land and was finally saved. IMO, anyway.