11/23/2023 0 Comments Life of pi zoo zebra drawing![]() (1984), Cannibalism and the Common Law: The Story of the Tragic Last Voyage of the Mignonette and the Strange Legal Proceedings to Which It Gave Rise, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. When the 17 year old cabin boy fell into a coma, probably from drinking too much salt water, they slit his throat, drank his blood and ate him. The four crew members survived in a lifeboat, not unlike the one in Life of Pi, for a couple of weeks on two tins of turnips and a turtle they managed to catch. In 1884, a small ship called the Mignonette was being sailed to Australia when it hit a big storm and sank. ![]() The “custom of the sea”, as British sailors used to call it, was that while it was not exactly encouraged, it was acceptable to eat whatever you could find in that situation, including your shipmates, preferably after they had died. Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.” “Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink There’s the sun beating down, the risk of being swamped by big waves, danger from sharks and whales, and most difficult of all – no food or water. It’s not easy to survive in a lifeboat at sea. Well, the name comes from an English court case about cannibalism (yes, you are in the right blog). Pi survives the shipwreck and is adrift in the Pacific Ocean on a lifeboat, with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. They are Hindu vegetarians and have trouble with the French cook, who tells them that the cow and pig he serves up to them were vegetarian (where have we heard that joke before?) The ship encounters a massive storm and sinks. ![]() ![]() At 16, Pi and his family sail for Canada on board a freighter, carrying the animals from their zoo. It is the story of a young man named “Pi” Patel, who recounts his life story to a writer. This is the 2012 film of the 2001 Yann Martel novel of the same name, directed by Ang Lee, who also made Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Hulk and Brokeback Mountain. ![]()
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