What is that hiss? Ah, our boat has touched sand. I will never forget you, that is certain. But I hope you will remember me as a friend. You have known the confined freedom of a zoo most of your life now you will know the free confinement of a jungle. I would like to say it formally: Richard Parker, thank you. 1963) constri o romance As Altas Montanhas de Portugal conjugando trs contos, separados no tempo, em 1904, 1938 e 1981, situados, essencialmente, em Lisboa, Bragana e numa pequena aldeia no Nordeste de Portugal, Tuizelo, concelho de Vinhais, distrito de Bragana. Can you believe it? I owe you more gratitude than I can express I couldn't have done it without you. I wish I had said to him then - yes, I know, to a tiger, but still - I wish I had said, 'Richard Parker, it's over. I wish so much that I'd had one last look at him in the lifeboat, that I'd provoked him a little, so that I was on his mind. That bungled goodbye hurts me to this day. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse. It's important in life to conclude things properly. 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 have about my nickname, the way the number runs on forever. Where we can, we must give things a meaningful shape. I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. “What a terrible thing it is to botch a farewell. Yann Martel, (born June 25, 1963, Salamanca, Spain), Canadian author best known for Life of Pi (2001), the story of the eponymous Indian teenager adrift at sea, after a shipwreck, in a lifeboat shared with a Bengal tiger.

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