Sublime

sait si j’en ai vu des gros ! C’était trop beau pour durer, pensa-t-il. Je voudrais maintenant que tout cela n’ait été qu’un rêve et n’avoir jamais ferré ce poisson, et être seul dans mon lit sur mon matelas de journaux. « Mais l’homme n’est pas fait pour être vaincu, dit-il. L’homme peut être détruit mais pas vaincu. » Je regrette pourtant d’avoir

You are killing me, fish, the old man thought. But you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer or more noble thing than you, brother. Come on and kill me. I do not care who kills who.

At one time when he was feeling so badly toward the end, he had thought perhaps it was a dream. Then when he had seen the fish come out of the water and hang motionless in the sky before he fell, he was sure there was some great strangeness and he could not believe it.

“But man is not made for defeat,” he said. “A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” I am sorry that I killed the fish though, he thought. Now the bad time is coming and I do not even have the harpoon. The dentuso is cruel and able and strong and intelligent. But I was more intelligent than he was. Perhaps not, he thought. Perhaps I was only bette

I wonder what a bone spur is, he thought.

C’est ainsi que cela finit pour moi, assez stupidement ; mais je continuai à remplir les petites tâches qu’elle m’assignait, à faire les visites indispensables, amenant les gens qu’elle voulait inviter et attendant d’être congédié, en même temps que la plupart de ses amis masculins, quand le moment fut venu et que de nouvelles amitiés remplacèrent

When he and the boy fished together they usually spoke only when it was necessary. They talked at night or when they were storm-bound by bad weather. It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea and the old man had always considered it so and respected it. But now he said his thoughts aloud many times since there was no one that they