舟動之穿林吟嘯行

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I wept like a child. It was not because I was overcome at having survived my ordeal, though I was. Nor was it the presence of my brothers and sisters, though that too was moving. I was weeping because Richard Parker [the tiger] had left me so unceremoniously. What a terrible thing it is to botch a farewell. I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things a meaningful shape. For example---I wonder---could you tell my jumbled story in exactly one hundred chapters, not one more, not one less? I'll tell you, that's one thing I hate about my nickname [Pi], the way that number runs on forever. It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse.

——from chapter 94 of Life of Pi, a novel by Yann Martel

He [Adam] succeeded in getting rid of God entirely from himself. God, in His mercy, remained within Adam enough to continue to keep him essentially alive, moving, thinking, feeling and exercising free will. But all of those functions came to be impaired, and Adam began to die. He also began to sin even more, because his free will had become distorted.

And therefore began the hunger, a hunger that has now lasted for millennia, a hunger that consumes our entire race. We hunger to regain the life that is the breath of God. Life---real life---is actually God. We call Him the "Giver of Life," and what He gives is Himself, His actual presence. If you have life at all, even incompletely, then you have God within you.

——A Man Fully Alive, by Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

The night grew colder, and it began to rain as midnight approached. Hail fell and clattered against their armor, and still they did not move. Then there came another warrior, tall and stooping, his cloak flapping in the fierce wind. He, too, was armored, through his cuirass was inlaid with gold and silver, as were the helmet and greaves he wore.

——Troy: Lord of the Silver Bow, by David Gemmel

It was the head of a veritable sea monster, huge and hideous. The head was broad and flat like a frog's, with two small eyes right at the sides, and a toadlike jaw which was four or five feet wide and had long fringes drooping from the corners of the mouth. Behind the head was an enormous body ending in a long thin tail with a pointed tail fin which stood straight up and showed that this sea monster was not any kind of whale.

——Reader's Digest