Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Libs handed me a book. It's been a great read. Here's some snippets to whet your appetite:

"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 cloud."

Now, granted this more than likely a thought birthed from the speaker's (Pi Patel) Hinduism but for the Christian it is more than true.

"There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God, as if Ultimate Reality, as if the sustaining frame of existence, were something weak and helpless."

"...people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. They should direct their anger at themselves. For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of the heart."

This book is an interesting twist of story and theory. The man, Pi Patel, whose story it is confesses, he is a Hindu, a Muslim and a Christian as a child. I have yet to see if that theme continues in his adulthood. However, I cannot argue with his response when his parents insist that he must choose. He simply says, "I want to love God."

Et tu'?