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| author | Miguel <m.i@gmx.at> | 2018-09-21 11:08:21 +0200 |
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| committer | Miguel <m.i@gmx.at> | 2018-09-21 11:08:21 +0200 |
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| parent | d4bc2ecdd1d0b3d3f3642a5f02840d1e0cb5e199 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/userspace/file.txt b/userspace/file.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 8cdd524..0000000 --- a/userspace/file.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,82 +0,0 @@ -Sometimes someone would speak in a boat. But most -of the boats were silent except for the dip of the -oars. They spread apart after they were out of the -mouth of the harbour and each one headed for the -part of the ocean where he hoped to find fish. The -old man knew he was going far out and he left the -smell of the land behind and rowed out into the -clean early morning smell of the ocean. He saw the -phosphorescence of the Gulf weed in the water as -he rowed over the part of the ocean that the -fishermen called the great well because there was -a sudden deep of seven hundred fathoms where all -sorts of fish congregated because of the swirl the -current made against the steep walls of the floor -of the ocean. Here there were concentrations of -shrimp and bait fish and sometimes schools of -squid in the deepest holes and these rose close to -the surface at night where all the wandering fish -fed on them. - -In the dark the old man could feel the morning -coming and as he rowed he heard the trembling -sound as flying fish left the water and the -hissing that their stiff set wings made as they -soared away in the darkness. He was very fond of -flying fish as they were his principal friends on -the ocean. He was sorry for the birds, especially -the small delicate dark terns that were always -flying and looking and almost never finding, and -he thought, "The birds have a harder life than we -do except for the robber birds and the heavy -strong ones. Why did they make birds so delicate -and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can -be so cruel? She is kind and very beautiful. But -she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and -such birds that fly, dipping and hunting, with -their small sad voices are made too delicately for -the sea." - -He always thought of the sea as la mar which is -what people call her in Spanish when they love -her. Sometimes those who love her say bad things -of her but they are always said as though she were -a woman. Some of the younger fishermen, those who -used buoys as floats for their lines and had -motorboats, bought when the shark livers had -brought much money, spoke of her as el mar which -is masculine. They spoke of her as a contestant or -a place or even an enemy. But the old man always -thought of her as feminine and as something that -gave or withheld great favours, and if she did -wild or wicked things it was because she could not -help them. The moon affects her as it does a -woman, he thought. - -He was rowing steadily and it was no effort for -him since he kept well within his speed and the -surface of the ocean was flat except for the -occasional swirls of the current. He was letting -the current do a third of the work and as it -started to be light he saw he was already further -out than he had hoped to be at this hour. - -I worked the deep wells for a week and did -nothing, he thought. Today I'll work out where the -schools of bonita and albacore are and maybe there -will be a big one with them. - -Before it was really light he had his baits out -and was drifting with the current. One bait was -down forty fathoms. The second was at seventy-five -and the third and fourth were down in the blue -water at one hundred and one hundred and -twenty-five fathoms. Each bait hung head down with -the shank of the hook inside the bait fish, tied -and sewed solid and all the projecting part of the -hook, the curve and the point, was covered with -fresh sardines. Each sardine was hooked through -both eyes so that they made a half-garland on the -projecting steel. There was no part of the hook -that a great fish could feel which was not sweet -smelling and good tasting. |
