The Old Man and the Sea
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And pain does not matter to a man.
But, then, nothing is easy.
Man is not much beside the great birds and beasts. Still I would rather be that beast down there in the darkness of the sea.
It is silly not to hope. Besides I believe it is a sin.
Do not think about sin, he thought. There are enough problems now without sin. Also, I have no understanding of it. … and I am not sure that I believe in it. Perhaps it was a sin to kill the fish. I suppose it was even though I did it to keep me alive and feed many people. But then everything is a sin. Do not think about sin. It is much too late for that and there are people who are paid to do it. Let them think about it. You were born to be a fisherman as the fish was born to be a fish.
He always thought of the sea as 'la mar' which is what people call her in Spanish when they love her. Sometimes those who love her say bad things of her but they are always said as though she were a woman. Some of the younger fishermen, those who used buoys as floats for their lines and had motorboats, bought when the shark livers had brought much money, spoke of her as 'el mar' which is masculine.They spoke of her as a contestant or a place or even an enemy. But the old man always thought of her as feminine and as something that gave or withheld great favours, and if she did wild or wicked things it was because she could not help them. The moon affects her as it does a woman, he thought.
“But man is not made for defeat, he said. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
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“Still I must sleep. They sleep and the moon and the sun sleep and even the ocean sleeps sometimes on certain days when there is no current and a flat calm.”
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“He noticed how pleasant it was to have someone to talk to instead of speaking only to himself and to the sea.”
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“If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy, he said aloud. But since I am not crazy, I do not care.”
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