When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.
Yann MartelI don’t mean to defend zoos. Close them all down if you want (and let us
hope that what wildlife remains can survive in what is left of the natural world). I know zoos are no
longer in people’s good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom
plague them both.
That I was a swimmer made no waves; it seems to be a law of human nature
that those who live by the sea are suspicious of swimmers, just as those who live in the mountains are suspicious of mountain climbers.
The sound would disappear, but the hurt would linger, like the smell of piss long after it has evaporated.
Yann MartelIt was a placid explosion of orange and red, a great chromatic symphony, a
colour canvas of supernatural proportions, truly a splendid Pacific sunset, quite wasted on me.
..there’s sunlight and shade, spots
and patterns of colour, your mind is elsewhere–so you don’t make out what is right in front of you.
My heart began to beat
like a merry drum and blood started flowing through my veins like cars from a wedding party
honking their way through town.
What of God’s silence? I think it over. I add:
An intellect confounded yet a trusting sense of presence and of ultimate purpose.
I tell you, to be drunk on alcohol is disgraceful, but to be drunk on water is noble and ecstatic.
Yann MartelTo look
out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one’s life away.
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