So you were raised in a zoo?

Born and raised.

In Pondicherry, in what was the French part of India.

My father owned the zoo...

and I was delivered on short notice by a herpetologist...

who was there to check on the Bengal monitor lizard.

Mother and I were both healthy...

but the poor lizard escaped...

and was trampled by a frightened cassowary.

The way of karma, huh?

The way of God.

That's quite a story.

I had assumed your father was a

mathematician because of your name.

Far from it, I was named after a swimming pool.

There is a swimming pool named "Pi"?

You see, my uncle Francis was born

with too much water in his lungs.

They say the doctors swung Francis around

by the ankles to clear the water out...