dual personalities

except, of course, that you already do.

Run, don’t walk, to see Ang Lee’s “Life of Pi”. I saw it this afternoon and I loved it. It is both breathtakingly beautiful and true to the book.

And it reminds us that a well-told story can capture the meaning of an event where mere facts can only record what happened. In this day and age of “science first” and obsessive “fact-checking” it’s worth remembering that “to choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.” (p. 28)