Sublime

She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. They would look on and on after every one else’s eyes in the world would have stopped looking. She looked as though there were nothing on earth she would not look at like that, and really she was afraid of so many things.

And now he has jumped more than a dozen times and filled the sacks along his back with air and he cannot go down deep to die where I cannot bring him up.

“The ocean is very big and a skiff is small and hard to see,” the old man said. He noticed how pleasant it was to have someone to talk to instead of speaking only to himself and to the sea. “I missed you,” he said. “What did you catch?”

dessus tout. Tout au long de ce printemps et au début de l’été, Scott s’efforça de travailler, mais il n’y parvint que par à-coups. Quand je le voyais, il était toujours gai, parfois désespérément gai, et il faisait de bonnes plaisanteries et c’était un bon compagnon. Quand il traversait de très mauvais moments, je l’écoutais me parler de ses diffi

Let him think I am more man than I am and I will be so. I wish I was the fish, he thought, with everything he has against only my will and my intelligence.

veriest tyro

“I wish I had a stone for the knife,” the old man said after he had checked the lashing on the oar butt. “I should have brought a stone.” You should have brought many things, he thought. But you did not bring them, old man. Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is. “You give me much good counsel,”