To Aditi, who messaged me this the night before her final semister MBA paper.
Penguin Books India > Free Chapter > Life of Pi: "When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling. My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition. I mock this skull. I look at it and I say, You've got the wrong fellow. You may not believe in life, but I don't believe in death. Move on! The skull snickers and moves ever closer, but that doesn't surprise me. The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity. It's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud."
~Life of Pi: by Yann Martel
3 comments:
YOW!And YOW again.
Alexis Zorba came to mind - "And I spit on that agony!"
*'Zorba the Greek', by Nikos Kazantzakis
Got to read that book now!! Found that you've mentioned Antaragni on ur blog a lot....like their music??
Lif of Pi one of the more honest books. Hey Ad!well i had never received a book for a gift earlier...thanks
Aditi
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