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| author | Miguel <m.i@gmx.at> | 2018-09-21 03:14:52 +0200 |
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| committer | Miguel <m.i@gmx.at> | 2018-09-21 03:14:52 +0200 |
| commit | d4bc2ecdd1d0b3d3f3642a5f02840d1e0cb5e199 (patch) | |
| tree | 076ecc41b928c057a6c10df6508237961d714958 /userspace/file.txt | |
| parent | ace0646608c393d8952b14536090c302bed2ee85 (diff) | |
piper works so nice
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diff --git a/userspace/file.txt b/userspace/file.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8cdd524 --- /dev/null +++ b/userspace/file.txt @@ -0,0 +1,82 @@ +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. |
