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"So you were raised in a zoo?"
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"Born and raised."
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"In Pondicherry, in what was the French part of India."
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"My father owned the zoo..."
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"and I was delivered on short notice by a herpetologist..."
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"who was there to check on the Bengal monitor lizard."
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"Mother and I were both healthy..."
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"but the poor lizard escaped..."
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"and was trampled by a frightened cassowary."
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"The way of karma, huh?"
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"The way of God."
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"That's quite a story."
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"I had assumed your father was a"
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"mathematician because of your name."
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"Far from it, I was named after a swimming pool."
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"There is a swimming pool named "Pi"?"
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"You see, my uncle Francis was born"
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"with too much water in his lungs."
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"They say the doctors swung Francis around"
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"by the ankles to clear the water out..."
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"and that's what gave him the huge chest and skinny legs..."
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"that made him such a great swimmer."
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"Is Francis actually your uncle?"
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"He said he was friends with your father."
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"He's my honorary uncle, I call him Mamaji."
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"My father's best friend, my swimming guru."
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"I trained with him three times a week at the ashram."
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"His lessons would save my life in the end."
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"A mouthful of water will not harm you, but panic will."
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"Remember to breathe now, don't hold your breath."
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"Good boy."
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"I hope you don't mind vegetarian."
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"No, no. Not at all."
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"And your name? Huh?"
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"You were going to tell me how you got your name, I think."
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"Oh, yes. I got it from something Mamaji once told my father."
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"You see, most travelers collect"
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"postcards or teacups on their journeys..."
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"but not Mamaji."
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"Mamaji collects swimming pools."
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"He swims in every pool he comes upon."
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"One day, Mamaji said to my father that,"
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"of all the pools in the world..."
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"the most beautiful was a public pool in Paris."
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"That the water there was so clear,"
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"you could make your morning coffee with it."
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"That a single swim there changed his life."
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"Before I was born, he said..."
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""If you want your son to have a clean soul..."
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"you must take him one day to swim in the Piscine Molitor.""
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"I never understood why my father took this so much to heart."
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"But he did, and I was named "Piscine Molitor Patel.""
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"Imagine me trying to explain that name."
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"I barely made it to the age of 11 before..."
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"Hey, Piscine!"
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"Are you pissing right now?"
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"Look at him, he's pissing!"
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"With one word, my name went from an elegant French swimming pool..."
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"to a stinking Indian latrine."
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"I was "Pissing" everywhere."
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"No Pissing in the schoolyard!"
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"Even the teachers started doing it."
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"Not deliberately, of course."
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"So, then, what might occur if we release gas too quickly?"
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"Pissing?"
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"He said "Pissing.""
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"That's enough! Order! Order!"
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"When we returned the next year for our first day of school,"
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"I was prepared."
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"Present, sir."
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"Piscine Patel."
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"Good morning. I am Piscine Molitor Patel."
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"Known to all as..."
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"Pi, the sixteenth letter of the Greek alphabet..."
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"which is also used in mathematics to represent the ratio..."
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"of any circle's circumference to its diameter."
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"An irrational number of infinite length,"
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"usually rounded to three digits..."
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"as 3.14."
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"Pi."
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"Very impressive, Pi. Now, sit down."
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"And from then on, you were "Pi"?"
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"Well, no, not quite."
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"Nice try, Pissing."
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"But I still had the whole day ahead of me."
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"French class was next."
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"Je m'appelle Piscine Molitor Patel."
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"Dit Pi."
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"Then, geography."
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"These are the first 20 decimal places of pi."
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"My last class of the day was mathematics."
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"Slowly, slowly, slowly."
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"Three. Seven. Five. Eight. Nine."
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"Eight. Five. Eight. Nine."
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"It's right. He's really doing this."
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"Pi! Pi! Pi!"
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"By the end of that day, I was Pi Patel, school legend."
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"Um, Mamaji tells me you're a legend among sailors, too."
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"Out there, all alone."
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"Oh, I don't even know how to sail."
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"And I wasn't alone out there. Richard Parker was with me."
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"Richard Parker?"
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"Mamaji didn't tell me everything."
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"He just said I should look you up when I got back to Montreal."
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"So, what were you doing in Pondicherry?"
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"Writing a novel."
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"By the way, I enjoyed your first book."
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"So, this new one, is it set in India?"
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"No, Portugal, actually. But it's cheaper living in India."
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"Ah, well, I look forward to reading it."
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"You can't."
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"I threw it out."
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"Two years trying to bring this thing to life..."
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"and then one day, it sputtered, coughed and died."
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"Oh, I'm sorry."
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"Uh, I was sitting in this coffee house in Pondicherry one afternoon,"
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"mourning my loss..."
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"when this old man at the table next to me struck up a conversation."
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"Yeah, Mamaji, he does that."
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"When I told him about my abandoned book, he said..."
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