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This reminds me of Life of Pi. The protagonist is a young man from India named Piscine (French for "swimming pool". I forget why he's called this, but I'm sure he does explain it). As a kid, he wa...
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2019-12-12T21:42:33Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#3: Attribution notice added
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2019-12-08T13:06:24Z (almost 5 years ago)
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This reminds me of _Life of Pi_. The protagonist is a young man from India named Piscine (French for "swimming pool". I forget why he's called this, but I'm sure he does explain it). As a kid, he was bullied at school because his name sounds like "pissing", so he shortened his name to "Pi" and made it stick by reciting hundreds of digits of pi on a blackboard. Logically, the characters in _Life of Pi_ (at least at that point in the book) would not be speaking English, just as those in your story would not be. But _Life of Pi_ just ignores this issue for the sake of telling a good story. You should too.
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2019-10-07T10:48:06Z (about 5 years ago)
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