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authorMiguel <m.i@gmx.at>2018-09-21 11:08:21 +0200
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-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.