So if you look at the Muslim mystics, the Sufis if you look at Christian mystics, like St. Yeah, except that if you look at religion, what's remarkable is how the mystics of each religion speak the same language. And so, all of those brought together in a lifeboat struck me as being… as a perfect metaphor. At the same time, we're rooted in our human, animal condition. Humans aspire to really high things, right, like religion, justice, democracy. And the main thing that struck me is the idea of a religious boy– because we have to say that Pi is a practicing Hindu, Muslim, and Christian– the idea of a religious boy in a lifeboat with a wild animal struck me as a perfect metaphor for the human condition. Here, I'll tell my own story."Īnd suddenly, all these ideas started coming together. And while I was there, I remembered that premise, and I sort of said, "man, I could really do something. I was sort of wondering, "What am I doing in life? I've written two books, but they haven't really done well." So I was sort of looking for a story, not only with a small "s," but sort of with a capital "s"– something that would direct my life. And then, about seven years later, I was in India, and India is a country with a lot of animals and a lot of religion. And it struck me that that's a good premise, I could do something with that. The premise came to me from reading a review of a Brazilian novel by a man named Moacyr Scliar, which I read about 12 years ago.
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