Sublime

If they get no feeling of the whole tragedy naturally they will react emotionally to the most picturesque incident.

“They must have taken a quarter of him and of the best meat,” he said aloud. “I wish it were a dream and that I had never hooked him. I’m sorry about it, fish. It makes everything wrong.” He stopped and he did not want to look at the fish now. Drained of blood and awash he looked the colour of the silver backing of a minor and his stripes still sho

Comme le fait remarquer dans Le Petit Prince son ami du temps de la guerre d’Espagne, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, seul le cœur nous permet d’appréhender le monde et les gens, puisque l’essence des choses n’est pas visible à l’œil nu. Le désespoir qu’exprime ici Hemingway est un sinistre présage de la fin qu’il s’infligera lui-même moins de trois mois

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.