1. Richard Parker

2. He’s a sacrificial lamb…what connection to Pi?
Edgar Allan Poe wrote one novel called The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket in 1838
Richard Parker was a mutineer who’s life was spared to help sail the ship(Grampus)
To avoid death, Parker suggested they kill one for food …they drew straws and Parker lost
He’s a sacrificial lamb…what connection to Pi?
Edgar Allan Poe wrote one novel called The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket in 1838
Richard Parker was a mutineer who’s life was spared to help sail the shit (Grampus)
To avoid death, Parker suggested they kill one for food …the drew straws and Parker lost
He’s a sacrificial lamb…what connection to Pi?

3. Richard Parker is the name of several real life people that were cannibalized at sea
1846 – The Francis Spaight foundered at sea. Richard Parker was one of the drowning victims
1884 – The Mignonette sank. Four Survivors in a lifeboat. They killed a 17 year old cabin boy named Richard Parker for food.
July 5, 1884 – Parker went into a coma…they put a penknife in his jugular and killed him. They were rescued on 7/29

4. Custom at sea was understood you had to do what was necessary to survive a shipwreck
This lead to a famous case: R vs. Dudley and Stephens
Ethical? Moral?

5. Cannibalism relates to zoology In humans it relates to evil/savage
Starvation for Pi: what was he starving for?
What, in theory was he trying to consume?
In Christianity what does cannibalism relate to?
The Eucharist (communion)…it is recreating the last supper with Christ before he was crucified