![]() The two Mister Kumars - one the science teacher, the other the mystic baker - and the zebra. I liked the irony of a boy named after a rational volume of water being adrift in an uncontrollable volume of water, the Pacific. A swimming pool ("piscine" in French) is a rectangular volume of water, a controlled volume of water. Along the same lines, I named my main character after a swimming pool to play on a contrast. It stuck me that a number used to come to a rational, scientific understanding of things should be called "irrational." I thought religion is like that, too: It's something "irrational" that helps make sense of things. I chose Pi as my main character's nickname because Pi, the number used so often in mathematics and engineering, is an irrational number that is, a number that goes on forever without any discernable pattern. Dear Emily, I don't know whether they would qualify as mystic puns, but: ![]() ![]() ![]() Our book club read the book last month, and wondered if there were more "mystic" puns such as the use of Tsimtsum as the ship's name? By the way, I was delighted to find out that "prusten" (a noisy sound used by tigers as a greeting) is a real word, and it seems to work with my cat.- EmilyĪ. Check out his answers to several readers' questions. Life of Pi is the latest selection in Good Morning America's "Read This!" book club series. 22, 2003 - Thanks for sending your questions to Life of Pi author Yann Martel. ![]()
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