【正文】 ed!–Samuel Ullman Excerpt from Chapter 86 of Life of Pi The ship slid by for what seemed like a mile, a mile of high, black canyon wall, a mile of castle fortification with not a single sentinel to notice us languishing in the fired off a rocket flare, but I aimed it of surging over the bulwarks and exploding in the captain39。s face, it ricocheted off the ship39。s side and went straight into the Pacific, where it died with a blew on my whistle with all my shouted at the top of my to no engines rumbling loudly and its propellers chopping explosively underwater, the ship churned past us, and left us bouncing and bobbing in its frothy so many weeks of natural sounds, these mechanical noises were strange and awesome and stunned me into less than twenty minutes a ship of three hundred thousand tons became a speck on the I turned away, Richard Parker was still looking in its a few seconds he turned away too and our gazes briefly eyes expressed longing, hurt, anguish, he was aware of was that something stressful and momentous had happened, something beyond the outer limits of his did not see that it was salvation barely only saw that the alpha here, this odd, unpredictable tiger, had been very settled down to another sole ment on the event was a cranky meow.“I love you!” The words burst out pure and unfettered, feeling flooded my chest.“Truly I love you, Richard I didn39。t have you now, I don39。t know what I would don39。t think I would make , I wouldn39。 would die of 39。t give up, Richard Parker, don39。t give 39。ll get you to land, I promise, I promise!” – Yann MartelExcerpt from The Old Man and the Sea It was dark now as it bees dark quickly after the sun sets in lay against the worn wood of the bow and rested all that he first stars were did not know the name of Rigel but he saw it and knew that soon they would all be out and he would have all his distant friends.“The fish is my friend too,” he said aloud.“I have never seen or heard of such a I must kill him, I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.” Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he moon runs imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky, he he was sorry for the great fish that had nothing to eat and his determination to kill him never relaxed in his sorrow for many people will he feed, he are they worthy to eat him? No, of course is no one worthy of eating him from the manner of his behavior and his great do not understand these things, he it is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.– Ernest Hemingway Public Attitudes Toward Science Whether we like it or not, the world we live in has