Sublime

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.”

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

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

the flag of permanent defeat.

“I’ll kill him though,” he said. “In all his greatness and his glory.” Although it is unjust, he thought. But I will show him what a man can do and what a man endures.

Now they have beaten me, he thought. I am too old to club sharks to death. But I will try it as long as I have the oars and the short club and the tiller.