Yann Martel
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And then he leaves without saying goodbye.
So, you know, I hadn't thought of that.
So that's what's lovely about sharing a story is people take it on as their own.
And that's what a story is supposed to do.
It's supposed to make connections.
It's supposed to be co-created by the reader.
Well, that's what that review in the New York Times said too.
But he's actually wrong when he said, it really irked me.
He said, for example, yeah, like chameleons.
He said, there's no chameleons in the ancient Greek world.
And I said, well, you just didn't do your research.
There's chameleons in Aristotle.
Aristotle mentions chameleons.
So surely Aristotle knows better than you.
And porcupines, there are porcupines in Greece.
He didn't bother himself to check.
And at one point I mentioned the gnu, the wildebeest.
And I say in the text,
how would an ancient Greek mind know of the gnu?
And I say perhaps, after all, the Greeks traded with Egypt.