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   From: marika5000@gmail.com   
      
   More on "The Life of PI"   
      
   Very interesting, but what does it mean?   
      
   Lets see--if I can condense all of this, to a word equation.   
      
   Assume the hyena (have never heard one good things about that   
   creature--especially in the story) simply represents evil (the devil).   
      
   The Tiger certainly belongs to the Hindu, it seems,   
      
   I still think the Orangutan would be Christianity - just fits.   
      
   That would make the Zebra (didn't even talk about that)--Muslim.  --don't   
   see anything there.   
      
   So how about:   
      
   The Hyena represents evil-- just does.   
      
   The Orangutan--motherhood, nurturing themes--woman themes.   
      
   The Zebra weakness, compromise (compromised)  ((suffering greatly-eaten by   
   EVIL)The Tiger--STRENGTH!  (So strong doesn't need or connect to   
   anything--controlled the boat--(for a while)it walked away without even a   
   thought of good-bye).  (Male themes?)   
      
   PI-ENDURANCE, INTELLECT,SPIRITUALLY, COURAGE, INFINITY, INFINITE.PATIENCE.   
   GOD TRIUMPH over Strength.  Triumph over all.  What we should strive to be.   
      
   When it comes down to it--the book is about religion, not a life boat.   
      
      
   marika wrote in message <1_udnUF8dc8a0_bbnZ2dnUVZ_jGdnZ2d@rcn.net>...   
   >i have a concern i want to make about this book club   
   >   
   >i have a plausible explanation for why more people didn't sign up for this   
   >session regarding "The Family Who Couldn't Sleep" by Mix   
   >   
   >the librarian has eaten all the former members   
   >   
   >it did not escape my notice that for  a second time, she assigned a   
   >book that has an important theme, the topic of cannibalism   
   >   
   >I am concerned about the real motives of the Queen St Library   
   >   
   >In the meantime, back to "The Life of PI", the other book that dealt with   
   >cannibalism   
   >   
   >i don't think there's any one right or wrong to the interpretations,   
   >there are probably many more, there's duality in the symbols, and   
   >possibility triality if i can make up a word   
   >   
   >think for instance that the three key animals are not unlike 3 in the   
   >trinity as well as magic number 3 in other cultures and societies   
   >   
   >those 3 animals were not unlike the number of clerics who accosted the   
   >boy on the road when he said i just want to pray   
   >   
   >or PREY???   
   >   
   >why a zebra for  a muslim as opposed to a single color animal   
   >   
   >i agree that tiger is strength, but more than that also power, which   
   >he could have wielded at any time by killing our young man   
   >   
   >but is dominated by the chief hindu god   
   >   
   >which here would be pi himself, who here sits as the god   
   >   
   >i cracked up when the japanese guys started drawing analogies from   
   >animals in the story to the humans that may or may not have been on the   
   >lifeboat   
   >   
   >when he said, o, pi was the tiger   
   >   
   >how dumb was that   
   >   
   >pi was pi   
   >   
   >if he was anyone other than pi, he was shiva   
   >   
   >and piscine to the extent that christ is associated with fish   
   >   
   >and certainly  piscine called by the nickname of a mathematical symbol   
   >that thus far is the very representation of infinity -- entirely   
   >spiritual in its connection to the eternal and afterlife   
   >   
   >also where is the reincarnation mythology in this book, reincarnation   
   >is infinite, and christ reincarnates himself infinitely at each   
   >service in the eucharist   
   >   
   >and we eat of the body -- good golly we are supposed to cannibalize   
   >jesus all the time in the eucharist   
   >   
   >if i  had ever taken a comparative religions course i could probably   
   >do more with this stuff  but i have never studied religion at all   
   >   
   >of course, i agree it was about religion, but i was pretty   
   >sure this was going to 2006's Jonathan Livingston Seagull anyway, the   
   >second the writer referenced all the little iconography on Pi's desk   
   >right at the start   
   >   
   >   
   >mk5000   
   >   
   >"And as for the commercial value of poetry, a favourite strip cartoon of   
   >mine shows two guys who have just met -   
   >A: What do you do?   
   >B: I'm a poet.   
   >A: Yes, but what do you do for a living?"--paul hansford   
   >   
   >marika wrote in message ...   
   >>as an aside, Le Refuge has innumerable venison choices, none of which I   
   >>tried.   
   >>   
   >>As noted, I had just recently come from a book club meetiong, where the   
   >>author Mix spoke about   
   >>his book "The family who couldn't sleep"   
   >>   
   >>The topic as I said is prion disease, including genetic and acquired, such   
   >>as mad cow also known as bovine spongiform encephelopathic disease   
   >>   
   >>Towards the end of the book and the lecture, he talke about the new   
   version   
   >>of this disease  attacking deer and elk   
   >>called "chronic wasting disease"   
   >>   
   >>It seems the highest concentration of this is actually in and around   
   >>Colorado, Utah etc.   
   >>   
   >>So if you go to those states, please don't eat venison, please.   
   >>   
   >>Without doubt, I didn't eat any while I was at La Refuge   
   >>   
   >>mk5000   
   >>   
   >> "It's a sign of good sushi if you can't get what you want   
   >>sometimes," --"The Zen of Sushi"  Trevor Corson   
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