"Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer." Yann Martel Life of Pi
I must admit I am not sure what his meaning is here. "Love is hard to believe". That doesn't make sense, it's just bad English. You can believe a statement, you can't believe a noun. I can't believe chocolate and I can't believe bananas so I can't believe love. I think he means "believe in the existence of love" or "believe that I am loved". And actually those aren't hard to believe in at all. Similarly, it's easy to believe that I am alive and that life exists. It's not much harder to believe in God, millions if not billions of people do after all. So what's the point here?
What is hard to believe is that a boy can come to be in a lifeboat with a tiger let alone survive 227 days on the open ocean.
I just attempted to read this book. Couldn’t get through it, wound up checking reviews online because I hated it so much. I agree with much of what you say. All I can add is that the opposite of Dry Yeastless Factuality is Moist Yeasty Fallaciousness. Yuck. Not much of a choice there there IMO.
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