marika wrote in message ...
>More on "The Life of PI"
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>Very interesting, but what does it mean?
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>Lets see--if I can condense all of this, to a word equation.
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>Assume the hyena (have never heard one good things about that
>creature--especially in the story) simply represents evil (the devil).
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>The Tiger certainly belongs to the Hindu, it seems,
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>I still think the Orangutan would be Christianity - just fits.
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>That would make the Zebra (didn't even talk about that)--Muslim. --don't
>see anything there.
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>So how about:
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>The Hyena represents evil-- just does.
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>The Orangutan--motherhood, nurturing themes--woman themes.
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>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?)
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>PI-ENDURANCE, INTELLECT,SPIRITUALLY, COURAGE, INFINITY,
INFINITE.PATIENCE.
>GOD TRIUMPH over Strength. Triumph over all. What we should strive to
be.
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>When it comes down to it--the book is about religion, not a life boat.
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>marika wrote in message <1_udnUF8dc8a0_bbnZ2dnUVZ_jGdnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>i have a concern i want to make about this book club
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>>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
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>>it did not escape my notice that for a second time, she assigned a
>>book that has an im****tant theme, the topic of cannibalism
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>>I am concerned about the real motives of the Queen St Library
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>>In the meantime, back to "The Life of PI", the other book that dealt
with
>>cannibalism
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>>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
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>>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
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>>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
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>>or PREY???
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>>why a zebra for a muslim as opposed to a single color animal
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>>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
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>>but is dominated by the chief hindu god
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>>which here would be pi himself, who here sits as the god
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>>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
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>>when he said, o, pi was the tiger
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>>how dumb was that
>>
>>pi was pi
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>>if he was anyone other than pi, he was ****va
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>>and piscine to the extent that christ is associated with fish
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>>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
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>>also where is the reincarnation mythology in this book, reincarnation
>>is infinite, and christ reincarnates himself infinitely at each
>>service in the eucharist
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>>and we eat of the body -- good golly we are supposed to cannibalize
>>jesus all the time in the eucharist
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>>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
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>>
>>mk5000
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>>"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
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>>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 su**** if you can't get what you want
>>>sometimes," --"The Zen of Su****" Trevor Corson
>>>
>>>
>>>
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