Sublime

Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.

I will show him what a man can do and what a man endures.

“But man is not made for defeat,” he said. “A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”

“Gertrude moved her large face close to mine. ‘You know, Hemingway, you’re someone I created, a macho character who roams the earth looking for adventure. The truth is, under pressure you have proved to be quite yellow, which is really an embarrassment to me.’

“Hemingway loves to write for those of us who will never come face to face with danger.”

“But man is not made for defeat,” he said. “A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

I must get him alongside this time, he thought. I am not good for many more turns. Yes you are, he told himself. You’re good for ever.