The Old Man and the Sea

You did not kil the fish only to keep alive and to sel for
food, he thought. You kil ed him for pride and because you
are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you
loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kil him. Or is it more?

But I must think, he thought. Because it is all I have left

A man can be destroyed but not defeated."

The thousand times that he had proved it meant nothing. Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.

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

Tomorrow is going to be a good day

bud-shields of the royal palm which are

row and Rogelio

butchered their marlin out

the boy said to him as they climbed the bank from where the skiff was hauled up.