How does one say in the jargon of musicology that my sould was pulled out of me and thrown up in the air, to be tossed about by the music. How does one say that I breathed, that I existed, in harmony with the ups and downs of those notes. What kind of notes both elevate and cast down, exalt and crush?
Yann MartelI know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.
Yann MartelMusic is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.
Yann MartelThe three religions because I wanted to discuss faith, not organized religion, so wanted to relativize organized religion by having Pi practice three. I would have like PI to be a Jew, too, to practice Judaism, but there are two religions that are explicitly incompatible: Christianity and Judaism. Where one begins, the other ends, according to Christians, and where one endures, the other strays, according to Jews.
Yann Martel