I know what you want. You want a story that won't surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won't make you see higher or further or… - Yann Martel

know what you want. You want a story that won’t surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won’t make you see higher or further or differently.

You may be astonished that in such a short period of time I could go from weeping over the muffled killing of a flying fish to gleefully bludgeoning to death a dorado. I could explain it by arguing that profiting from a pitiful flying fish’s navigational mistake made me shy and sorrowful, while the excitement of actively capturing a great dorado made me sanguinary and self-assured. But in point of fact the explanation lies elsewhere. It is simple and brutal: a person can get used to anything, even to killing.

"All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. - "The Life of Pi

It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.