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Life of Pi

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Life of Pi

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01 CHAPTER 1 My suffering left me sad and gloomy.
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02 CHAPTER 2 He lives in Scarborough. He's a small, slim man
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03 CHAPTER 3 I was named after a swimming pool. Quite peculiar considering my parents never took to water. One of
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04 CHAPTER 4 Our good old nation was just seven years old as a republic when it became bigger by a small territory.
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05 CHAPTER 5 My name isn't the end of the story about my name. When your name is Bob no one asks you, "How do
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06 CHAPTER 6 He's an excellent cook. His overheated house is always smelling of something delicious. His spice rack
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07 CHAPTER 7 It was my luck to have a few good teachers in my youth, men and women who came into my dark head
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08 CHAPTER 8 We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man. In a general way we
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09 CHAPTER 9 Getting animals used to the presence of humans is at the heart of the art and science of zookeeping. The
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10 CHAPTER IO
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11 CHAPTER 11 Consider the case of the female black leopard that escaped from the Zurich Zoo in the winter of 1933.
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12 CHAPTER 12 At times he gets agitated. It's nothing I say (I say very little). It's his own story that does it. Memory is an
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13 CHAPTER 13 So you see, if you fall into a lion's pit, the reason the lion will tear you to pieces is not because it's
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14 CHAPTER 14 It is interesting to note that the lion that is the most amenable to the circus trainer's tricks is the one with
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15 Chapter 15 His house is a temple. In the entrance hall hangs a framed picture of Ganesha, he of the elephant head.
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16 CHAPTER 16 We are all born like Catholics, aren't we
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17 CHAPTER 17 First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first. I owe to Hinduism
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18 CHAPTER 18 Islam followed right behind, hardly a year later. I was fifteen years old and I was exploring my
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19 CHAPTER 19 I went to see him again.
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20 CHAPTER 20 He was a Sufi, a Muslim mystic. He sought fana, union with God, and his relationship with God was
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21 CHAPTER 21 I am sitting in a downtown cafe, after, thinking. I have just spent most of an afternoon with him. Our
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22 CHAPTER 22 I can well imagine an atheist's last words: "White, white! L-L-Love! My God!"
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23 CHAPTER 23 Alas the sense of community that a common faith brings to a people spelled trouble for me. In time, my
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24 CHAPTER 24 Ravi had a field day of it when he found out.
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25 CHAPTER 25 And that wasn't the end of it. There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God, as if
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26 CHAPTER 26 A few days after the meeting on the esplanade, I took my courage into my hands and went to see Father
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27 CHAPTER 27 Later that evening I overheard my parents speaking.
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28 CHAPTER 28 I loved my prayer rug. Ordinary in quality though it was, it glowed with beauty in my eyes. I'm sorry I
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29 CHAPTER 29 Why do people move? What makes them uproot and leave everything they've known for a great
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30 CHAPTER 30 He's married. I am bent down, taking my shoes off, when I hear him say, "I would like you to meet my
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31 CHAPTER 31 They met once, Mr. and Mr. Kumar, the baker and the teacher. The first Mr. Kumar had expressed the
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32 CHAPTER 32 There are many examples of animals coming to surprising living arrangements. All are instances of that
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33 CHAPTER 33 He shows me family memorabilia. Wedding photos first. A Hindu wedding with Canada prominently on
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34 CHAPTER 34 Father said, "We'll sail like Columbus!"
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35 CHAPTER 35 We left Madras on June 21st, 1977, on the Panamanian-registered Japanese cargo ship Tsimtsum. Her
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36 CHAPTER 36 The cities are large and memorably crowded in India, but when you leave them you travel through vast
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37 CHAPTER 37 The ship sank. It made a sound like a monstrous metallic burp. Things bubbled at the surface and then
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38 CHAPTER 38 I don't understand. For days the ship had pushed on, bullishly indifferent to its surroundings. The sun
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39 CHAPTER 39 I landed with a trampoline-like bounce on the half-unrolled tarpaulin covering a lifeboat forty feet
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40 CHAPTER 40 Richard Parker did not jump into the water after me. The oar I intended to use as a club floated. I held on
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41 CHAPTER 41 The elements allowed me to go on living. The lifeboat did not sink. Richard Parker kept out of sight.
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42 CHAPTER 42 She came floating on an island of bananas in a halo of light, as lovely the Virgin Mary. The rising sun
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43 CHAPTER 43 The last trace I saw of the ship was a patch of oil glimmering on the surface of the water.
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44 CHAPTER 44 The sun climbed through the sky, reached its zenith, began to come down. I spent the entire day perched
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45 CHAPTER 45 I was cold. It was a distracted observation, as if it didn't concern me. Daybreak came. It happened
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46 CHAPTER 46 Clouds that gathered where ships were supposed to appear, and the passing of the day, slowly did the job
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47 CHAPTER 47 The day broke, humid and overcast, with the wind warm and the sky a dense blanket of grey clouds that
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48 CHAPTER 48 Richard Parker was so named because of a clerical error. A panther was terrorizing the Khulna district of
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49 CHAPTER 49 In the morning I could not move. I was pinned by weakness to the tarpaulin. Even thinking was
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50 CHAPTER 50 It was three and a half feet deep, eight feet wide and twenty-six feet long, exactly. I know because it was
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51 CHAPTER 51 But that first time I had a good look at the lifeboat I did not see the detail I wanted. The surface of the
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52 CHAPTER 52 After a thorough investigation, I made a complete list:
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53 CHAPTER 53 I slept all morning. I was roused by anxiety. That tide of food, water and rest that flowed through my
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54 CHAPTER 54 It rained all night. I had a horrible, sleepless time of it. It was noisy. On the rain catcher the rain made a
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55 CHAPTER 55 Dawn came and matters were worse for it. Because now, emerging from the darkness, I could see what
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56 CHAPTER 56 I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever,
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57 CHAPTER 57 It was Richard Parker who calmed me down. It is the irony of this story that the one who scared me
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58 CHAPTER 58 I pulled out the survival manual. Its pages were still wet. I turned them carefully. The manual was
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59 CHAPTER 59 Alone or not, lost or not, I was thirsty and hungry. I pulled on the rope. There was a slight tension. As
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60 CHAPTER 60 I awoke once during the night. I pushed the canopy aside and looked out. The moon was a sharply
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61 CHAPTER 61 The next morning I was not too wet and I was feeling strong. I thought this was remarkable considering
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62 CHAPTER 62 I slept in fits that night. Shortly before sunrise I gave up trying to fall asleep again and lifted myself on
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63 CHAPTER 63 The Robertson family survived thirty-eight days at sea. Captain Bligh of the celebrated mutinous Bounty
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64 CHAPTER 64 My clothes disintegrated, victims of the sun and the salt. First they became gauze-thin. Then they tore
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65 CHAPTER 65 I spent hours trying to decipher the lines in the survival manual on navigation. Plain and simple
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66 CHAPTER 66 I fished with a variety of hooks at a variety of depths for a variety of fish, from deep-sea fishing with
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67 CHAPTER 67 The underside of the raft became host to a multitude of sea life, like the net but smaller in form. It
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68 CHAPTER 68 My sleep pattern changed. Though I rested all the time, I rarely slept longer than an hour or so at a
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69 CHAPTER 69 On many nights I was convinced I saw a light in the distance. Each time I set off a flare. When I had
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70 CHAPTER 70 Butchering a turtle was hard work. My first one was a small hawksbill. It was its blood that tempted me,
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71 CHAPTER 7I
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72 CHAPTER 72 In my case, to protect myself from Richard Parker while I trained him, I made a shield with a turtle
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73 CHAPTER 73 My greatest wish
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74 CHAPTER 74 I practised religious rituals that I adapted to the circumstances
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75 CHAPTER 75 On the day when I estimated it was Mother's birthday, I sang "Happy Birthday" to her out loud.
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76 CHAPTER 76 I got into the habit of cleaning up after Richard Parker. As soon as I became aware that he had had a
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77 CHAPTER 77 As the cartons of survival rations diminished, I reduced my intake till I was following instructions
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78 CHAPTER 78 There were many skies. The sky was invaded by great white clouds, flat on the bottom but round and
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79 CHAPTER 79 There were sharks every day, mainly makos and blue sharks, but also oceanic whitetips, and once a tiger
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80 CHAPTER 80 Of all the dorados, I remember one in particular, a special dorado. It was early morning on a cloudy day,
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81 CHAPTER 81 I know my survival is hard to believe. When I think back, I can hardly believe it myself.
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82 CHAPTER 82 I kept rainwater and the water I collected from the solar stills in the locker, out of Richard Parker's sight,
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83 CHAPTER 83 The storm came on slowly one afternoon. The clouds looked as if they were stumbling along before the
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84 CHAPTER 84 I was on the tarpaulin, wrapped in a blanket, sleeping and dreaming and awakening and daydreaming
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85 CHAPTER 85 Once there was lightning. The sky was so black, day looked like night. The downpour was heavy. I
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86 CHAPTER 86 "Richard Parker, a ship!"
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87 CHAPTER 87 One of my favourite methods of escape was what amounts to gentle asphyxiation. I used a piece of cloth
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88 CHAPTER 88 One day we came upon trash. First the water glistened with patches of oil. Coming up soon after was the
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89 CHAPTER 89 Everything suffered. Everything became sun-bleached and weather-beaten. The lifeboat, the raft until it
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90 CHAPTER 90 I said, "Richard Parker, is something wrong? Have you gone blind?" as I waved my hand in his face.
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91 CHAPTER 91 I climbed aboard my brother's boat. With my hands I explored it. I found he had lied to me. He had a
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92 CHAPTER 92 I made an exceptional botanical discovery. But there will be many who disbelieve the following episode.
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93 CHAPTER 93 I grew weary of my situation, as pointless as the weather. But life would not leave me. The rest of this
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94 CHAPTER 94 When we reached land, Mexico to be exact, I was so weak I barely had the strength to be happy about it.
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95 CHAPTER 95 Mr. Tomohiro Okamoto, of the Maritime Department in the Japanese Ministry of Transport, now retired,
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96 CHAPTER 96 "Hello, Mr. Patel. My name is Tomohiro Okamoto. I am from the Maritime Department in the Japanese
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97 CHAPTER 98 Mr. Okamoto: "Very interesting."
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98 CHAPTER 99 Mr. Okamoto: "Mr. Patel, we don't believe your story."
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99 CHAPTER IOO
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