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</ifram 《老人与海》诺贝尔文学奖获得者海明威的经典之作| The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway| audiobook| 中英字幕| 彩色插图| 英文有声书 Best Story - Learn English through Classic Story 10.7K subscribers Subscribe 35 Share Download Save 1,698 views Feb 9, 2024 #TheOldManandtheSea #中英字幕 #ErnestHemingway #audiobookwithsubtitles #TheOldManandtheSea# EnglishStory #ErnestHemingway #经典文学名著 #老人与海 #海明威 #英文有声书 #中英字幕 #趣味学英语 欧内斯特·海明威（Ernest Hemingway）是美国小说家、短篇小说家和记者，生于1899年7月21日，出生于美国伊利诺伊州奥克帕克。他被认为是20世纪最具影响力的作家之一，以简约和精确的写作风格而闻名，其作品常常探讨爱情、战争、男性气质和人类境遇等主题。 他在1920年代凭借小说《太阳照常升起》（1926年）和《永别了，武器》（1929年）获得了声誉，这两部作品都借鉴了他在第一次世界大战期间担任救护车司机的经验。海明威因其叙事艺术的精湛和对当代文学的深刻影响而于1954年获得诺贝尔文学奖。 《老人与海》于1952年出版，是海明威最著名的作品之一，使他于1953年赢得了普利策小说奖，并有助于1954年的诺贝尔文学奖的获得。这部中篇小说以其强大的人类忍耐力和积极乐观的人生态度以及在自然面前永不服输的顽强精神而闻名。在他的整个职业生涯中，海明威的写作风格和主题关注深深影响了当代文学界，激励了一代又一代的作家和读者。 Chapters： 00:00:00 The Old Man and the Sea 00:00:04 Part1 00:02:45 Part2 00:05:41 Part3 00:08:33 Part4 00:11:36 Part5 00:14:45 Part6 00:17:49 Part7 00:20:48 Part8 00:23:45 Part9 00:26:50 Part10 00:33:01 Part11 00:35:48 Part12 00:38:38 Part13 00:41:51 Part14 00:45:09 Part15 00:48:14 Part16 00:51:42 Part17 00:57:29 Part18 01:00:00 Part19 01:03:02 Part20 01:07:34 Part21 01:12:02 Part22 01:21:16 Part23 01:34:22 Part24 01:40:50 Part25 01:48:42 Part26 01:57:30 Part27 02:08:27 Part28 02:16:27 Part29 02:26:37 Part30 02:33:46 Part31 Chapters View all Transcript Follow along using the transcript. Show transcript Skip navigation Search 9+ Avatar image 3:43 / 2:40:04 • Part2 《老人与海》诺贝尔文学奖获得者海明威的经典之作| The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway| audiobook| 中英字幕| 彩色插图| 英文有声书 Best Story - Learn English through Classic Story 10.7K subscribers Subscribe 35 Share Download Save 1,698 views Feb 9, 2024 #TheOldManandtheSea #中英字幕 #ErnestHemingway #audiobookwithsubtitles #TheOldManandtheSea# EnglishStory #ErnestHemingway #经典文学名著 #老人与海 #海明威 #英文有声书 #中英字幕 #趣味学英语 欧内斯特·海明威（Ernest Hemingway）是美国小说家、短篇小说家和记者，生于1899年7月21日，出生于美国伊利诺伊州奥克帕克。他被认为是20世纪最具影响力的作家之一，以简约和精确的写作风格而闻名，其作品常常探讨爱情、战争、男性气质和人类境遇等主题。 他在1920年代凭借小说《太阳照常升起》（1926年）和《永别了，武器》（1929年）获得了声誉，这两部作品都借鉴了他在第一次世界大战期间担任救护车司机的经验。海明威因其叙事艺术的精湛和对当代文学的深刻影响而于1954年获得诺贝尔文学奖。 《老人与海》于1952年出版，是海明威最著名的作品之一，使他于1953年赢得了普利策小说奖，并有助于1954年的诺贝尔文学奖的获得。这部中篇小说以其强大的人类忍耐力和积极乐观的人生态度以及在自然面前永不服输的顽强精神而闻名。在他的整个职业生涯中，海明威的写作风格和主题关注深深影响了当代文学界，激励了一代又一代的作家和读者。 Chapters： 00:00:00 The Old Man and the Sea 00:00:04 Part1 00:02:45 Part2 00:05:41 Part3 00:08:33 Part4 00:11:36 Part5 00:14:45 Part6 00:17:49 Part7 00:20:48 Part8 00:23:45 Part9 00:26:50 Part10 00:33:01 Part11 00:35:48 Part12 00:38:38 Part13 00:41:51 Part14 00:45:09 Part15 00:48:14 Part16 00:51:42 Part17 00:57:29 Part18 01:00:00 Part19 01:03:02 Part20 01:07:34 Part21 01:12:02 Part22 01:21:16 Part23 01:34:22 Part24 01:40:50 Part25 01:48:42 Part26 01:57:30 Part27 02:08:27 Part28 02:16:27 Part29 02:26:37 Part30 02:33:46 Part31 Chapters View all Transcript Follow along using the transcript. Show transcript Best Story - Learn English through Classic Story 10.7K subscribers Videos About 1 Comment rongmaw lin Add a comment... @gladysma308 3 weeks ago Why reading like whispering!? 3 Reply Transcript The Old Man and the Sea 0:00 the old man in the sea by Earnest Hemingway it was an old man who fished Part1 0:07 alone in his ski in the Gulf Stream and he'd gone 84 days now without taking a 0:12 fish in the first 40 Days A boy had been with him and after 40 days without a 0:17 fish the boy's parents had told him that the old man was now definitely in finally Sala which is the worst form of 0:24 unlucky and the boy had gone and there orders in another boat which caught three good fish the first week 0:30 it made the boy sad to see the old man come in each day with his skiff empty 0:35 and he always went on to help him carry either the coiled lines or the Gaff and Harpoon and sail that was furled around 0:43 the Mast the sail was patched with flower sacks and furled it looked like the flag 0:49 of permanent defeat the old man was thin and gun with deep wrinkles in the back of his neck 0:56 the brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the son brings from Its Reflection and the dropping Seas were on 1:03 his cheeks the blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands and the Deep greased scars from handling 1:10 heavy fish and the cords but none of these scars were fresh they were as old 1:16 as erosions in a fishless desert everything about him was old 1:21 except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and 1:26 undefeated Santiago the boy said to him as they climbed the bank from where the skiff was hauled up I could go with you 1:33 again we made some money the old man had taught the boy to Shish and the boy LED 1:38 in no the old man said you with the lucky boook stay with him but remember 1:46 you went 87 days without fish and then we caught big ones every day for 3 weeks 1:51 I remember the old man said I know you did not leave me because you doubted it 1:58 was Papa made me leave I am a boy and I must have B I know the old man said it is quite 2:06 normal he hasn't much Faith No the old man said but we have haven't we yes the 2:15 boy said can I offer you a beer on the Terrace and then we'll take a stuff home 2:21 why not the old man said between fishermen they sat in the Terrace and 2:27 many of the fishermen made fun of the old man and he was not angry others of the older fishermen looked at him and 2:34 were sad but they did not show it and they spoke politely about the current in the gaps they had drifted their lines at 2:41 and the steady good weather and of what they had seen the successful fishermen of that day were already in and had Part2 2:48 butchered their Marlin out and carried them L full length across two planks with two men staggering at the end of 2:54 each plank to the fish house where they waited for the ice trop to carry them to the market in Havana those who had 3:00 caught sharks had taken them to the sharp Factory in the other side of the Cove where they were hoisted on a block and tackle their livers removed their 3:07 fins cut off and their hid skinned out and their flesh cut into strips for salting when the wind was in the East a 3:14 smell came across the Harbor from the shark Factory but today there was only the Fate edge of the odor because the 3:21 wind had backed into the North and then dropped off and it was pleasant and sunny and the 3:27 Terrace Santiago the boy yes the old man said he was holding his 3:33 glass and thinking a many years ago can I go up and get sardines for you for 3:39 tomorrow no could play baseball I can still row and rilio will throw the 3:47 neck I'd like to go I cannot fish with you I'd like to serve in some way you 3:52 bought me a deare the old man said you're already a man how old was I when you first took me 3:59 in a boat FES you nearly were killed when I brought the fish into green you nearly 4:05 tore the bul to pieces can you remember I can remember the tail 4:11 slapping and banging and the fort breaking and the noise of the clubbing I can remember you throwing me into the 4:17 bar where the wind coiled lines were and feeling the H booat shiver and the noise of your Clubby in Ling chopping a tree 4:24 down and then sweet blood smell all over me could you really remember that or did 4:30 I just tell it to you I remember everything from when we first went 4:36 together the old man looked at him with his sunburned confident loving 4:41 eyes if you were my boy I'd take you out and gambo he said mat you are your 4:48 fathers and your mothers and you are in a lucky boat may I got the sardines I 4:53 know where I can get for baits too I have mine left from today and I put them 4:58 in Sal in the Box let me get four fresh ones one the old man said his hope and 5:05 his confidence had never gone but now they were freshening as when the breeze Rises to the boy said to the old man 5:15 agreed you didn't steal them I would the boy said but I bought 5:21 these thank you the old man said it was too simple to wonder when he had 5:26 attained humility but he knew he had attained and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of 5:33 true Pride tomorrow is going to be a good day with his current he said where are you 5:40 going boyest far out to come in when the wind shifts I want to be out before it Part3 5:46 is light I'll try to get him to work far out the boy said then if you hook 5:51 something truly big we can come raid he does not like to work too far out no the 5:58 boy said but I will see something that he cannot see such as a bird working and get him to come out after dolin oh his 6:06 eyes that man he's almost blind it is strange the old man said he 6:14 never went turtling that is what kills the aish but you went turtling for years 6:19 off the mosquito coast and your eyes are good I am a strange old 6:25 man but you're strong enough now for a try big fish 6:30 I think so and there are many tricks but is D the Stuffle the boy said 6:36 so I can get the cast net and go after the sardines I picked up the gear from the 6:42 bat the old man carried the Mast on his shoulder and the boy cared the wooden box with a coiled hard braided Brown 6:48 lines the GFF and the Harpoon with its shaft the box with the bakes was under 6:54 the stern of the skiff along with a club that was used to subdue the big fish when they were brought alongside 7:00 sign no one would steal from the old man but it was better to take the sail in the heavy lines home as the Dee was bad 7:07 for them and though he was quite sure no local people would steal from him the old man thought bit of gath and a 7:14 harpoon were needless Temptations to leave in a boat they walked up Ro together to the 7:20 old man's Shack and went in through its Open Door the old man leaned the Mast 7:25 with its wrapped sail against the wall and the boy put a box and he other gear beside it the M was nearly as long as 7:33 the one room at a shack A Shack was made of the tough Bud sheeld of the royal pal 7:38 which are called guano and in it there was a bed a table one Sher and a place 7:44 on the dirt floor to cook with charcoal and the brown walls of the 7:49 flattened overlapping leaves of the sturdy fibered guano that was a picture in color of the Sacred Heart of Jesus 7:56 and another of the virgin of Cobra these were relics of his wife once there had 8:02 been a tinted photograph of his wife in the wall but he'd taken it down because it made him too lonely to see it and it 8:09 was on the Shelf in the corner under his clean shirt W you have to eat the boy asked a 8:16 pot of yellow rice with fish do you want some no I will eat it home do you want 8:22 me to vtif fire no I will make it later on or I may eat the rice cold I take the 8:30 cast net of course there was no cast net and the boy remembered when they had Part4 8:36 sold it but they went through this fiction every day there was no pot of yellow rice and fish and the bo you this 8:44 too 85 is a lucky number the old man 8:49 said oh would you like to see me bring one in that dressed out over 8:54 ,000 I'll get the castet and go for sardines will you s Miss son in the 9:00 doorway yes I have yours today's bper and I will read the 9:05 baseball a Bo did not know whether yesterday's B was a fiction too but the old man brought it out from under the 9:12 bed Erico gave it to me at the Boda he explained I'll be back when I have the 9:18 sardines I'll keep yours and mine together on ice and we can share them in the morning when I come back you can 9:24 tell me about the baseball the Yankees canot loose but I sure they Indians of 9:29 Cleveland at s and the lanes my son think of the great de 9:35 Maro I fear both the Tigers of Detroit and the Indians of Cleveland be careful 9:41 you wereth here even a Reds of Cincinnati and the white socks of shico you study it and tell me when I 9:49 come back you think we should buy a terminal of the lottery within 9:55 85 tomorrow is the 85th day we can do 10:00 that the boy said but on about 87 of your great 10:05 record it could not happen twice you think you can find an 10:10 85 I can order one one SE touch $2 and the half who can we borrow that from 10:19 that's easy I can always borrow $2 and half I think perhaps I can to but I try 10:27 not to borrow first you borrow then you beg keep all man the boy said remember 10:35 we're in September the months when the great fish come the old man said anyone can be a 10:42 fisherman in may I go now for the sardines the boy 10:48 said when the boy came back the old man was asleep in the chair and the sun was 10:53 down the boy took the old army blanket off the bed and spread it over the back of the chair and over the old man's 11:00 shoulders they were strained shoulders still powerful although very old and the neck was still strong too and The Graces 11:08 did not show so much when the old man was asleep and his head Fallen forward his short had been patched so 11:15 many times that it was like the sail and the patches were faded to many different shades by the 11:20 Sun the old man's head was very old though and with his eyes closed there 11:26 was no life in his face and he was lay across his knees and the weight of his 11:31 arm held it there in the evening Breeze he was barefooted the boy left him there Part5 11:37 and when he came back the old man was still asleep wake up old man the boy said and 11:44 put his hand in one of the old man's knees the old man opened his eyes and 11:50 for a moment he was coming back from a long way away then he 11:55 smiled what have you got he asked supper said the bo we're going to have 12:01 supper I'm not very hungry come on and eat you can't fish and not eat 12:09 I the old man said getting up and taking the newspaper and folding it and he 12:14 started to fold the blanket keep the blanket around you the boy said you'll not fish without eating while I'm alive 12:22 then live a long time and take care of yourself the old man said what are we 12:27 eating back being and rice fried bananas and some stew the boy had dropped him in a twood 12:34 Decker metal container From the Terrace two sets of knives and frks and spawns 12:39 were in his pocket with a paper napkin wrapped around each set will gave this to you Martin the 12:47 owner I must thank him I thanked him already the boy said you don't need to 12:52 thank him I'll give him the belly meat of a big fish the old man said has he 12:58 done this for us more than once i' think so I must give him something more than a 13:05 belly meat and he is very sful for us he sent two beers I like the beer in cans 13:14 best I know but this is in bottles hot away beer and I take back the 13:20 bottles naturally kind of you the old man said should we 13:25 eat I've been asking you do the boy told him J I have not wished to open the 13:30 container until you were ready I'm ready now the old man said I 13:36 only needed time to wash where did you wash so boy saw the 13:42 Village Water Supply was two streets down the road I must have wor for and the boy thought insult been a good tow I 13:49 myself F this I must get him another shirt and a jacket for the winter and 13:55 some sort of shoes and another blanket you're still is excellent the old man 14:02 said tell me about the baseball the boy asked him in the American League it is 14:08 the Yankees as I said the old man said happily they lost today the boy told him 14:16 that means nothing the great de marro is himself again they have other men in the 14:23 team naturally but he makes the difference in the other league between 14:29 Brooklyn and Philadelphia I must take Brooklyn but 14:34 and I think of dickler and those great drives in the old park there was nothing 14:41 ever like them he hits the longest ball I've ever seen do you remember when he used to Part6 14:47 come to the Terrace I wanted to take in fishing but I was too timid to ask him 14:53 then I asked y to Askin and Y would to Tim it I know it was a great mistake AK 14:59 he might have gone with this than we would have had that for all of our Lives I would like to take the great 15:05 dearo fishing the old man said they say his father was a fisherman maybe he was 15:12 as poor as we are and would understand the great s's father was never poor and 15:18 he the father was playing in the big leagues when he was my age and I was your age I was before the m and a square 15:26 rig ship that ran to Africa and I have seen Lions on the beaches in 15:32 the evening I know you told me should we talk about Africa or about 15:41 baseball baseball I think the boy said tell me about the great John J 15:47 mcra he used to come to the tourist sometimes too in the older days but he 15:53 was rough and harsh broken and difficult when he was drinking his mind was on 15:59 horses as well as baseball at least he carried lists of horses at all times in 16:05 his pocket and frequently spoke the names of hces on my telephone he was a great manager the boy 16:12 said my father thinks he was the greatest because he came here the most 16:17 times the old man said if the ropes are and continued to come here each year your father would think him the greatest 16:24 manager who was the greatest manager really L here might consult 16:29 I think they are equal and the best fisherman is you go why no others better 16:37 K the boy said there are many good fishermen and some great ones but there is only you thank you you'll make me 16:45 happy I hope no fish will come along so great that he will prove us wrong there 16:51 is no such fish if you were still strong as you say I may not be as strong as I 16:57 think the old man said but I know many drinks and I have 17:04 resolution you ought to go to bed now so that you'll be fresh in the morning I will take the things back to B 17:10 Terrace good night then I will wake you in the morning you're my alarm clock the 17:17 boy said AG use my alarm clock the old man said I the old man wake so early is it 17:26 to have one longer day I don't know the boy said all I know is 17:31 that young boys sleep late and hard I can remember it the old man said 17:37 I'll waken you in time I do not like for him to waken me it is as though I were 17:44 inferior I know s BO old man the boy went out they had eaten with Part7 17:52 no light in the table and the old man took off his trousers and went to bed in the dark he rolled his trousers up to 17:59 make a pillow putting the newspaper inside them he rolled himself in the blanket and slapped in the other old 18:05 newspapers that covered the Springs of the bed he was asleep in a short time and he 18:11 dreamed of Africa when he was a boy in the long golden beaches and the white 18:17 beaches so white they hurt your eyes and the high gapes and the great Brown 18:23 mountains he lived along that Coast now every night and in his dreams he heard 18:28 the surf Roar and saw the native boats come riding through it he smelled the 18:33 tar and O and the deck as he slept and he smelled the smell of Africa that the land breeze brought at 18:40 morning years low when he smelled the land breeze he woke up and dressed to go and wait the boy but tonight the smell 18:48 of the land breeze came very early and he knew it was too early in his dream and went on dreaming to see the white 18:54 peaks of the islands rising from the sea and then he dreamed of the different Harbors is in roadsteads of the Canary 19:02 Islands he no longer dreamed of storms nor of women all of great occurrences 19:07 nor of great fish nor fights nor contests of strength nor of his wife he 19:13 only dreamed of places now and of the Lions on the beach they played like 19:19 young cats in the Dusk and he loved them as he loved the boy he never dreamed 19:25 about the boy he simply woke looked out the open door at the moon and unrolled 19:31 his trousers and put them on he urinated outside the shack and then went up the 19:36 road to waake the boy he was shivering with the morning cold but he knew he would shiver himself warm and that soon 19:42 he would be rolling the door of the house where the boy lived was unlocked and he opened it and walked in quietly 19:49 with his bare feet the boy was asleep and a caught in the first room and the 19:54 old man could see him clearly with a light that came in from the dying wound he took all at one foot gently and held 20:01 it until the boy woke and turned and looked at him the old man nodded and the 20:06 boy took his trousers from The Chair by the bed and sitting on the bed pulled them on the old man went out the door and the 20:15 boy came after him he was sleepy and the old man put his arm across his shoulders 20:20 and said I am sorry K the boy said t is what a man 20:25 must do they walked down the road to the old man's Shack and all along the road in 20:31 the dark Barefoot men were moving carrying the masts of their boats when they reached the old man's 20:38 Shack the boy took the rolls of line in the basket and the Haroon and gas and 20:44 the old man carried the Mast with the furled sail on his shoulder do you want coffee the boy Part8 20:50 asked we're bought the gear in the bat and then get some they had coffee from condensed milk 20:57 cans that at an early morning place that serve fishermen how did you sleep old man the 21:03 boy asked he was waking up now although it was still hard for him to leave his 21:08 sleep very well manolin the old man said I feel confident 21:15 today so do I the boy said now I must get your sardines and mine and your 21:21 fresh baks he brings our GE himself he never wants anyone to carry anything 21:27 we're different the old man said I let you carry things when you were 5 years 21:32 old I know it the boy said I'll do right back have another coffee we have credit 21:39 here he walked us there footed on the coral rocks to the ice house where the baits were 21:46 stored the old man drank his coffee slowly it was all he would have all day 21:52 and he knew that he should take it for a long time now eating had bored him then 21:57 he never carried a lunch he had a bottle of water in the bow of the ski and that was all he needed for the 22:04 day the bo was back now with the sardines and the two baits wrapped in a newspaper and they went down the trail 22:10 to the skiff feeling the babbled sand under their feet and left him thei and 22:16 sled her into the water good luck old man good luck the old man said he fitted 22:24 the Rope lashings of the OES onto the F pin and the forward against the thrust of the blades in the water it began to 22:31 roll out of the harbor in the dark there were other bats from the oven beaches going out to seea and the old man heard 22:39 the D and push of their ores even though he could not see them now the moon was below the 22:46 hills sometimes someone would speak in a boat but most of the boats were silent 22:52 except for the dip of the OES they spread apart after they were out of the mouth of the harbor and each one headed 22:59 for the part of the ocean where he HED to find fish the old man knew he was going far out and he left the smell of 23:06 the land behind and rode out into the clean early morning smell of the ocean 23:12 he saw the phosphorescence of the gulf weed in the water as he rode over the part of the ocean that the fishermen 23:18 called The Great Whale because there was a sudden deep of 700 fathoms or all 23:24 sorts of fish congregated because of the swirl urr in against the Steep walls of 23:29 the floor of the ocean here there were concentrations of shrimp and Bait fish and sometimes 23:36 skulls of squid in the deepest halls and these Rose close to the surface at night 23:42 where all the wandering fish fed on them in the dark the old man could feel Part9 23:48 the morning coming and as he rolled he heard the trembling sound as flying fish 23:54 left the water and the hissing that their stiff set wings made as they soared away in the darkness he was very 24:01 fond of flying fish as they were his principal friends in the ocean he was sigh for the birds especially the small 24:09 delicate dark turns that were always flying and looking and almost never 24:14 finding and he thought the birds have a harder life than we do except for the robber Birds and the heavy strong ones 24:22 why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so Cru 24:29 she is kind and very beautiful but she can be so gral and it comes so suddenly and such 24:37 birds that fly diing and hunting with their small sad voices I made too 24:43 delicately for the sea he always thought of the sea as 24:48 Lamar which is what people call her in Spanish when they love her sometimes those who love her say bad things of her 24:55 but they are always said as though she were a woman some of the younger fishermen those who used boys as floats 25:02 for their lines and had motorboats bought when the sharp livers that brought much money this spook of is elar 25:10 which is masculine this book of is a contestant to replace or even an enemy the old man always thought of his 25:18 feminine and is something that gave or withheld great favors and if she did 25:23 wild or wicked things it was because she could not help him the moon affs her as 25:29 it does a woman he thought it was Ruan Studley and it was 25:35 no effort for him since he kept well within his speed and the surface of the ocean was flat except for the occasional 25:42 swirls of the current he was letting the current do a third of the work and as it started to 25:48 be light he saw he was already further out than he help to be a dis 25:53 hour I worked at De bells for a week and did nothing he thought today I'll work 26:01 out for the schools of Bonito and albor and maybe there will be a big one with 26:06 him for it was really light he had his bait out and was drifting with a current 26:12 one bed was down 40 fathoms the second was at 75 and the third and fourth were 26:18 down in the blue water at 100 and 120 SI SS each bit Tong head down with the 26:25 shank of the Hulk inside the big fish tied and sewed solid and all the 26:31 projecting part of the hook the curve in the BL was covered with fresh sardines 26:37 each sardine was hooked through Ball's eyes so that they made a half Garland on the projecting steel there was no part 26:44 of the hope that a great fish could feel which was not sweet smelling and good Part10 26:50 tasting the boy had given him two fresh small Tunas or albors which hung on the 26:56 two deepest lines like like Bonnets and on the others he had a big blue Runner and a yellow Jack that had been used 27:02 before but they were in good condition still and had the excellent sardines to give them scent and 27:08 attractiveness each line as thick around as a big pencil was looped onto a green 27:14 sa stick so that any pull or touch in the bait would make the stick dead each 27:20 line had 24 fom coils which could be made fast to the other SP coils so that 27:25 if it were necessary a fish could take out over 300 fathoms of line now the man watched the dip of the 27:33 three sticks over the side of the skiff and rode gently to keep the Lin straight 27:38 up and down and that their proper deaths it was quite light and at any moment now 27:43 the Sun would rise the sun rose thinly from the sea and the old man could see 27:50 the other boats low in the water and well in toward the shore spread out across the current then the sun was was 27:57 brighter and the glare came in the water and then as it Rose clear the flat SE send it back at his eyes so that it h 28:05 sharply and he rode without looking into it he looked down into the water and 28:10 watched the lines that went straight down into the dark of the water he kept 28:16 them straighter than anyone did so that at each level in the darkness of the stream there would be a bait waiting 28:22 exactly where he wished it to be for any fish that swam there others left them drift with a current and sometimes they 28:29 were at 60 fathoms when the fisherman thought they were at 100 but he's thought I keep them with 28:37 Precision only I have no luck anymore but to knows Andy 28:45 today every day is a new day it is better to be lucky but I would rather be 28:51 exact then when luck comes you're ready 28:58 the sun was 2 hours higher now and it did not hurt his eyes so much to look into the 29:03 East there were only three boats inside now and they showed very low and far in 29:10 Shore all my life the early sun has H my eyes he thought yet you're still gold in 29:17 the evening I can look straight into it without getting the Blackness it is more force in the evening too but in the 29:24 morning it is painful just then he saw a man of war bird with 29:30 his long black wings circling in the sky aheed in he made a quick drop sling down 29:36 in his back swept wings and then circled again he's got something the old man 29:43 said aloud he's not just looking he rode slowly and steadily 29:49 toward where the bird was circling he did not hurry and he kept his line straight up and down but he crowded the 29:56 current a little saw that he was still fishing correctly though faster than he would have fished as he were not trying 30:02 to use the bird the bird went higher in the air and circled again his wings 30:08 motionless then he Dove suddenly and the old man saw a flying Fierce bird out of the water and sailed desperately over 30:15 the surface D friend the old man said aloud 30:20 big dolphin he shooked his hores and brought a small line from under the 30:28 it had a wire leader in the mediumsized hke and he beded it with one of the sardines he let it go over the side and 30:35 then made it fast to a Ringle in the stern then he baited another line and left it coiled in the shade of the ball 30:43 he went back to rowing and to watching the long- winged black bird who was working now low over the water as he 30:51 watched the bird dipped again sanding his wings for the dive and then swinging them wildly and in effectually as he 30:58 followed the Flying Fish the old man could see the slle Bulge in the water 31:03 that the big dolphin raised as they followed the escaping fish the dolphin were cutting through 31:09 the water below the flight of a fish and would be in the water driving its bead when the fish 31:15 dropped it is a big score of dolphin he saw they are wides spread and the flying 31:21 fish have little chance the bird is no chance the flying fish are to Big for 31:27 him and I go too fast he watched The Flying Fish burst out again and again and the ineffectual 31:34 movements of the bird that sco has gotten away from me he's up there moving up too fast and too 31:42 far but perhaps I will pick up his tray and perhaps my big fish is run and my 31:50 big fish must be somewhere clouds over the land now Rose 31:56 like mountain and the coast was only a long green line with a gray Blue Hills behind it the water was a dark blue now 32:05 so dark that it was almost purple as he looked down into it he saw the red 32:10 sifting of the plankton in the dark water and the strange light the sun made know he watched his lines to see them go 32:18 straight down out of sight into the water and he was happy to see so much Plankton because it meant fish the 32:25 strange light the sun made in the water now that the sun was higher meant good weather so that the shade of the clouds 32:31 over the land but the bird was almost out of sight now and nothing showed in 32:37 the surface of the water but some patches of yellow sun bleached saraso weed and the purple formalized 32:44 iridescent gelatinous bladder of a Portuguese Mana War floating close beside the 32:49 boat it turned on its side and then red itself and floated cheerfully as a 32:55 bubble with its long deadly purple filaments trailing a yard behind it in the Part11 33:02 water the man said you wh from where he swung lightly against 33:08 his ores he looked down into the water and saw the tiny fish that were colored like the trailing filaments and swam 33:15 between them and under the small shade the Bobble made as it drifted they were 33:20 inun to its poison but men were not and when some of the filaments would catch on a line in rest slimy and purple while 33:28 the old man was working a fish he would have welts and Soares and his arms and hands of the sort that poison ey the 33:35 your poison oak can give but these poisonings from the auam Mala came in strule 33:42 Whiplash The uid Descent bubbles were beautiful but they were the falsest thing in the sea and the old man loved 33:49 to see the big sea turtles eating them the turtles saw them approaching them from the front then shut their eyes so 33:57 they were completely carapaced and ate them filaments and all new old man loved 34:02 to see the turtles eat them and he loved to walk on them in the beach after a storm and hear them pop when he stepped 34:08 on them with the horny SES of his feet he loved green turtles and H bills 34:14 with their elegance and speed and their Great Value and he had a friendly contempt for the huge stupid loggerheads 34:21 yellow in their armor plating strange in their love making and happily eating the 34:26 Portuguese Men of War with Arisha he had no mysticism about turtles 34:32 although he'd gone in Turtle boats for many years he was sorry for them all 34:38 even the great Trump BS that were as long as the skiff and weighted ton most people are heartless about 34:45 turtles because a turtle's heart will beat for hours after he's been cut up and butchered but the old man S I have such 34:53 a hard tool and my feet and hands are black bears he ate the white eggs to give 35:00 himself strength he ate the alls R to be strong in September and October for the truly Big Fish he also drank a cup of 35:08 shark liver oil each day from the big drum in a shack where many of the fishermen kept their gear it was there 35:14 for all fishermen who wanted it most fishermen hated The Taste but it was no 35:19 worse than getting up at the hours that they Rose and it was very good against all colds and grips and it was good for 35:26 to the eyes now the old man looked up and saw that the bird was circling again 35:33 he's found fish he said aloud no flying fish broke the surface and there was no 35:40 scattering of Bak fish but as the old man watched a small tuna Rose in the air 35:46 turned and dropped head first into the water the tuna Shone silver and the Sun Part12 35:51 and after he dropped back into the water another and another Rose and they were jumping in all Direction CS juring the 35:57 water and leaping in Long jumps after the bait they were circling it and driving it if they don't travel too fast 36:06 I would get into them the old man up and he watched the school working the water 36:11 white and the bird now dropping and dipping into the baked fish that were forced to the surface in their 36:16 Panic a bir is a great help the old man said just then the stern line came Taun 36:24 under his foot where he kept a loop of the line and dropped his ORS and felt the weight of the small tuna shivering 36:30 pole as he held the line firm and commenced to haul it in the Shivering increased as he pulled in and he could 36:36 see the blue back of the fish in the water and the gold of his sides before he swung him over the side and into the 36:43 boat he land Stern in the sun Compact and bullet-shaped his big unintelligent 36:50 eyes stirring as he thumped his life out against the planking of the boat with the quick shivering Strokes of his knee 36:56 fast moving tail the old man hid him in the head for kindness and kicked him his body still 37:03 shuttering under the shade of the stern Al he settled on you make a 37:09 beautiful gate he'll weigh 10 pounds he did not remember when he first 37:16 started to talk aloud when he was by himself he had sung when he was by himself in the old days and he'd sung at 37:23 night sometimes when he was alone steering on his w in the smacks or in the turtle 37:29 boats he'd probably started to talk aloud quite alone and the boy had left 37:36 but he did not remember when he and the boy fished together they usually spoke only when it 37:42 was necessary they talked at night or when they were Stone Bound by bad 37:47 weather it was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at seene and the 37:53 old man had always considered itself cell and respected it but now he said his thoughts alowed many times since 38:00 there was no one that they could annoy the others heard me talking out 38:06 loud they would think that I'm crazy he said aloud but should I'm not crazy I do 38:13 not care and the rich have read yours to talk to them in their boats and to bring them the 38:20 baseball now is no time to think of baseball he thought now is the time to 38:26 think of only one thing that which I was born for there might be a big one around 38:32 that school he thought I picked up only a straggler from the AL cor that we Part13 38:38 feeding but they are working far out and fast everything that shows in the 38:44 service today travels very fast and to the Northeast and that be the time of day or 38:52 is it some sign of wether that I do not know 38:57 he could not see the green of the shore now but only the tops of the Blue Hills that showed white as though they were 39:03 snowcapped and the clouds that looked like high snow mountains above them the 39:08 sca was very dark and the light made prisms in the water the Myriad flexs of 39:14 the Plankton were ened now by the high sun and it was only the great deep 39:20 prisms and the blue water that the old man saw now with his lines going straight down into the water that was 39:26 mile deep the tuna the fisherman called all the fish of that species tuna and 39:33 only distinguished among them by their proper names when they came to sell them or to trade them for baits were down 39:40 again the sun was hot now and the old man felt it in the back of his neck and 39:45 felt the sweat trickled down his back as he rode I could just drift dis and sleep 39:53 and put a bite of line around my toe to wake me but today is 85 days and I should fish 40:01 the day well just then watching his lines he saw 40:07 one of the projecting green sticks dip 40:12 sharply yes you said yes and shipped his ores without 40:18 bumping the boat he reached out to the line and held it softly between the thumb and forefinger of his right hand 40:26 he felt no strain no weight and he held the line lightly then it came again this 40:32 time it was a tentative Co not solid or heavy and he knew exactly what it was 40:39 100 fathoms down of marlin was eating the sardines that covered the point in the shank of the hul with a Hand Forged 40:46 hul projected from the head of the small tuna your man held the line delicately 40:53 and softly with his left hand Unleashed from the STI now he could let It Bun 40:59 through his fingers without the fish feeling any tension this far out he must be huge in 41:05 this month he thought eat them fish eat them please eat them how fresh they are 41:12 and you down there 600 ft IM at cold water in the dark make another two inate 41:19 dark and come back and eat them he felt the light delicate pulling and then a 41:24 harder pull when a sardine head must must have been more difficult to break from the Hulk then it was 41:31 nothing come on the old man said Al loud make another turn just smell them i' be 41:39 lovely eat them good now and then there's the tuna hide and cold and 41:46 lovely don't be shy s e he waited with a line between his Part14 41:53 thumb and his finger watching it and the other lines at the same time for the fish might have swam up or down then 42:01 came the same delicate pulling touch again he would take it the old man said 42:07 aloud God help him to take it he did not take it though he was gone and he old 42:15 man so nothing it can have gone he said Christ 42:21 knows you can't have gone he's making a turn maybe he's been HED before and he 42:26 remembers something of it and he felt the Gentle Touch in the line and he was 42:33 happy was only his turn he said he'll take his he was happy feeling the gentle 42:39 pulling and then he felt something hard and unbelievably heavy it was the way to 42:45 the fish and he let the line slip down down down un rolling off the first of 42:52 the two resered coils as it went down slipping lightly through the the old man's fingers he still could feel the 42:58 great way though the pressure of his thumb and finger were almost imperceptible or a fish he said he has 43:07 it sideways in his mthm now and he's Bing off with it and he will turn and 43:12 swallow it he thought he did not say bad because he knewed if you said a good thing it might not happen he knew what a 43:20 huge fish this was and he thought of him moving away in the darkness with the tuna held crosswise in his mouth at that 43:27 moment he felt him stop moving but the weight was still there then the weight 43:33 increased and he gave more line he tightened the pressure of his thumb and finger for a moment and the weight 43:39 increased and was going straight down he's taken it he said now I'll let 43:46 him me it well he let the line slip through his fingers while he reached down with his left hand and made fast 43:53 the free end of the two Reserve coils to the loop that the two Reserve coils of the next line now he was ready he had 44:00 three 45 coils of line in reserve now as well as the coil he was 44:06 using he did a little more he said he did well he did said that the point of 44:13 the hul goes into your heart and kills you he thought come up easy and let me put the heroon into you all right are 44:22 you ready have you been long enough at table no he said aloud and struck hard with 44:29 both hands gained a yard of line and then struck again and again Swinging with each arm alternately in the cord 44:35 with all the strength of his arms and the pivoted weight of his body nothing happened the fish just 44:43 moved away slowly and the old man could not raise him an inch his line was 44:48 strong and made for heavy fish and he held it against his back until it was so T that beads of water were jumping from 44:55 it then it began to make a slow hissing sound in the water and he still held it 45:01 bracing himself against the Flo and leaning back against a poll the board began to move slowly off toward the Part15 45:09 Northwest the fish moved steadily and they traveled slowly on the calm water 45:15 the other baits were still in the water but there was nothing to be done I wish I had the boy the old man 45:22 settled loud I'm being told by a face and I'm the toing bit I could make the 45:28 line fast but then he could break it I must hold him all I can and give him 45:34 line when he must have it andk God is traveling and not going 45:40 down what I will do if he decides to go down I don't know what I'll do if he 45:46 sounds and dies I don't know but I'll will do something there are plenty of 45:52 things I can do he held the L against his back and watched it slant in the water in the 45:59 skiff moving steadily to the Northwest this world chill in the old 46:04 man up he can't do this forever but 4 hours later the fish was 46:11 still swimming steadily out to sea Towing this GIF and the old man was 46:16 still braced solidly with a line across his back it was known when I hooked him he 46:24 said and I have never SE him he pushed his straw half down in his head before 46:30 he hook a fish and was cutting his forehead he was thirsty too and he got down in his knees and being careful not 46:37 to jerk in the line moved as far into the bow as he could get and reach the water bottle with one hand he opened it 46:44 and drank a little then he rested against the bow he rested sitting in the unstepped m and sail and tried not to 46:51 think but only to endure many up behind him and saw that 46:57 no land was visible that makes no difference he thought I can always come in and the 47:03 glow from heaven and at two more hours before the sun sets and maybe he will 47:09 come up before that if he doesn't maybe he will come up with the moon if he does 47:14 not do that maybe he will come up with the sunrise I have no cramps and I feel 47:21 strong it is he that has the H in his mouth not what a fish 47:26 to P like that he must have his mouth shut tight in The 47:31 Wire I wish I could see in I wish I could see in only once to know what I 47:38 have against me fish never changed his course or his 47:44 Direction all that night as far as the man could tell from watching the stars and was cold after the sun went 47:51 down and the old man sweat dried cold in his back and his arm arms and his old 47:57 legs during the day he taken the sack that covered the Bak box and spread it in the sun to dry after the sun went 48:05 down he tied it around his neck so that it hung down over his back and he cautiously worked it down under the line 48:11 that was across his shoulders now the sack cushioned the line and he' found a Part16 48:16 way of Leaning forward against the bow so that he was almost comfortable the position actually was only somewhat less 48:24 intolerable but he thought of it is almost comfortable I can do nothing with him 48:31 and he can do nothing with me he s not as long as he keeps this 48:37 up once he stood up and urinated over the side of his gift and looked at the stars and checked his 48:44 course the line showed like a phosphorus and streak in the water straight out from his shoulders they were moving more 48:51 slowly now and the glow of thean was not so strong so that he knew the current 48:57 must be carrying into the Eastward if I lose the glare of aana we 49:02 must be going more to the Eastward he sought for as the fish's course held 49:08 true I must see it for many more hours I wonder how the baseball came out 49:14 in the grand leagues today he thought it would be wonderful to do this 49:20 with a radio then he thought think of it always 49:25 think of what you were doing you must do nothing stupid then he said Alou I wish I had 49:34 the boy to help me and to see 49:40 this no one should be alone in their old age he so but it is 49:46 unavoidable I must remember to eat the tuna before he spoils in order to keep 49:52 strong remember no matter how little you you want to that you must eat him in the morning remember he said to 49:59 himself during the night two porpuses came around a boat and he could hear them rolling and blowing he could tell 50:07 the difference between the blowing noise the maale made and the sighing blow of the 50:13 female gordi said they play and make jokes and love one another they are our 50:20 brothers like the Flying Fish many began to pity the Great fish 50:26 that he'd hoped he's wonderful and strange and who knows how old he is he 50:33 thought never have I had such a strong fish or one who acted so 50:39 strangely perhaps he is too mil to jump he could ruin Me by jumping or by a wild 50:47 rush but perhaps he has been hooked many times before and he knows that this is 50:52 how he should make his fight he cannot know that if is only one man against him 50:58 know that it is an old man but what a great fish he is and what will he bring 51:05 in the market if the flesh is good he took the bait like a male and he 51:11 pulls like a male and his Fighters not panick in it I wonder if he has any plans or ifuse 51:18 just his desperat Zion he remembered the time that he'd hooked one of a pair of marlin 51:26 the male fish always let the female fish feed first and the HED fish the female 51:32 made a wild Panic stricken dis bearing fight that soon exhausted her and all the time the ma stayed with her crossing 51:39 the line and circling with her on the surface he' stayed So Close That the old man was afraid he'd cut the line with Part17 51:46 his tail which was sharp as a size and almost a bet size and shape when the old 51:51 mted gaffed her and clubbed her holding the rapear bill with with its sandpaper Edge and clubbing her across the top of 51:58 her head until her color turned to a color almost like the backing of mirrors and then with a boy's Aid heisted aboard 52:06 the male fish had stayed by the side of the bll then while the old man was clearing 52:13 the lines and preparing the Harpoon the male fish jumped High into the air 52:18 beside the boat to see where the female was and then went down deep his lavender 52:24 wings that were his spectral fin spread wide and all his wide lavender Stripes 52:30 showing it was beautiful the old man remembered and he had 52:37 stayed that was the saddest thing I ever saw with then the old man up the boy was 52:46 sad too and we begged her pardon and butchered her promtly I wish the boy was 52:54 here he settled M and settled himself against the rounded planks of the bow 53:00 and felt the strength of the great fish through the line he held across his shoulders moving steadily toward 53:06 whenever he had chosen when Once through my treachery it 53:12 had been necessary to him to make a choice the old man 53:18 thought his choice had been to stay in the deep dark water far up beyond all 53:23 snares and traps and treacheries my choice was to go there to 53:29 find him theond all people theond all people in the 53:35 world now we are joined together and have been since no one and 53:43 no one to help NE one of us perhaps I should not have been a 53:50 fisherman he thought but that was the thing that I was born full and must 53:57 surely remember to eat the tuna after it gives 54:03 light sometime before daylight something took one of the baits that were behind 54:09 him he heard the stick break and the lion began to rush out over the gunel of the skiff in the darkness he loosened 54:16 his sheath knife and taking all the strain of the fish on his left shoulder he leaned back and cut the line against 54:22 the wood of the gumel Benny caught the other line closest to him and in the dark made the loose ends of the reserved 54:29 coils fast he worked skillfully with the one hand and put his foot in the coils 54:35 to hold him as he drew his knots tight now he had six reserved coils of line 54:41 the were two from each bait he had suffered and the two from the bait the fish had taken and they were all 54:48 connected after a disl he thought I will work back to the 47 bait and cut it away 54:53 too and Link up the reserve coils I would have lost 200 fathoms of good 55:00 Catalan Cardell and the hooks and leaders that can be 55:06 replaced but who replaces this fish if I hook some fish in it cuts him off I 55:12 don't know what that fish was that Dr the B just now it could have been a Marlin or a broad Bell or a shark I 55:19 never felt him I had to get rid of him too fast aloud he said I wish I had the 55:29 boy but you haven't got the boy he s you have only yourself and you'd better work 55:35 back to the last line now in the dark or not in the dark and cut it away and hook 55:40 up the two Reserve coils so he did it it was difficult in the dark and once the 55:47 fish made a surge that pulled him down in his face and made a gut below his eye 55:52 the blood ran down his cheek a little way but it coagulated and dry before it reached his chin and he worked his way 55:59 back to the bow and rested against the wood He adjusted the sack and carefully 56:04 worked the lines of it it came across a new part of his shoulders and holding it anchored with his shoulders he carefully 56:11 felt the pull of the fish and then felt with his hand the progress of the ski through the 56:17 water I wonder what he made that Lurch for he s the wi must have slipped on a 56:24 great Hill of his back certainly his back to not feel as badly as mine does but he cannot pull 56:32 this gii forever a matter how great he is now everything is cleared away that 56:38 might make trouble that I have a big reserve of ly all that a man can 56:44 ask fish he said softly aloud I'll stay with you until I am dead 56:56 you stay with me too I suppose the old man saw and he waited for it to be light 57:03 it was cold now in the time before daylight and he pushed against the wood to be warm I can do it as long as he can 57:11 he saw and in the first light the line extended out and down into the 57:17 water the bat moved steadily and when the first age of the sun rose it was in 57:22 the old man's right shoulder he's HED no us the old man said the current will Part18 57:30 have set us far to the Eastward he thought I wish he would turn with a 57:36 current that would show that he was tiring on the sun and risen further the 57:41 old man realized that the fish was not tiring there was only one favorable sign 57:47 the slant of the line showed he was swimming at a lesser depth that did not 57:52 necessarily mean that he would drun but he might God blood him jump the old man 57:59 said I have enough line to handle him maybe if I can increase the tension 58:06 just a little it will hurt him and he will jump he thought now that it is daylight let him jump so that he'll fill 58:12 the sacks along his backbone with air and then he cannot go deep to 58:17 die he tried to increase the tension but the line had been taught up to the very edge of the breaking point since You' 58:25 the fish and he felt the harshness as he leaned back to pull and knew he could put no more strain on it I must not Jerk 58:32 it ever he thought each jerk widens the cut the hul makes and when he does jump 58:39 he might throw it anyway I feel better with the sun and for once I do not have 58:45 to look into it there was yellow weed in the line but the old man knew that only he made an 58:52 added drag and he was pleased it was the Y Yow gol weed that had made so much phosphorescence in the 58:59 night he said I love you and respect you very much but I will kill you dead 59:06 before this day ends let us hope so he thought a small 59:13 bird came to a bisi from the NOS he was a warbler and flying very low over the 59:18 water the old man could see that he was very tired the bird made the stern of the 59:23 boat and rested there then he flew on the old man's head and rested on the line where he was more 59:32 comfortable how old are you the old man asked the bird is this your first 59:38 Dr the bird looked at him when he spoke he was too tired even to examine the 59:44 line and he teetered on and as his delicate feet gripped it fast it's steady the old man told him 59:52 it's too steady you should wouldn't be that tired after a windless night what 59:57 the birds coming too the Hawks he thought that come out to see to meet them but he said nothing Part19 1:00:05 of this to the bird who could not understand him anyway and who would learn about the Hawks soon enough take a 1:00:12 good rest small bird he said and go in and take your chance like any man or 1:00:19 bird or fish it encouraged him to talk because his back had stened in the and 1:00:25 it hurt truly now stay at my house if you like bird he 1:00:30 said I'm sorry I cannot Hoist the sail and take you in with the small Breeze that is rising but I am with a 1:00:38 friend just then the fish give a sudden Lurch that pulled the old man down into the bow and would have pulled him 1:00:44 overboard if he not braced himself and given some line the bird had slown up then the line 1:00:51 jerked and the old man had not even seen him go he felt the line carefully with 1:00:56 his right hand and noticed that his hand was bleeding something HT him then he said 1:01:02 aloud and pulled back in the line to see if he could turn the fish but when he was touching the breaking point he held 1:01:09 steady and settled back against the strain of the line you feeling it now fish he said ha 1:01:18 so God knows a lie he looked around for the bird now because he would have liked 1:01:24 him for accompany the bird was gone you did not stay Al the man s but it is 1:01:31 rougher while you are going until you make the shore how did I let the fish 1:01:37 cut me with that one crit py made I must be getting very stupid perhaps I was 1:01:42 looking at the small bird and thinking of him now I will pay attention to my work and I must eat the tuna so that I 1:01:50 will not have a failure of strengths I wish the boy were here and 1:01:56 that I had some salt he said aloud shining the way of the line to his left 1:02:03 shoulder and kneeling carefully he washed his hand in the ocean and held it there submerged for more than a minute 1:02:10 watching The Blood Trail away and the steady movement of the water against his hand as the boat 1:02:16 moled he has slow much he said the old 1:02:21 man would have liked to keep his hand in the salt water longer but he was afraid of another sudden Lurch by the fish and 1:02:27 he stood up and braced himself and held his hand up against the sun it was only a line burn that had cut 1:02:34 his flesh but it was in the working part of his hand he knew he would need his 1:02:40 hands before this was over and he did not like to be CAU before it 1:02:45 started no he said one his handed dry I must eat this small Juna I can reach him 1:02:52 with a gaff and eat him here in Comfort he kned down and found the tuna 1:02:57 under the stiring with a GFF and Drew it toward him keeping it clear at the coil mines holding the line with his left Part20 1:03:04 shoulder again and bracing on his left hand and arm he took the tuna off the Gaff walk and put the Gaff back in place 1:03:11 he put one knee in the fish and cut strips of dark red meat longitudinally 1:03:17 from the back of the head of a tail they were wedge shaped strips and 1:03:22 he got them from next to the back bone down to the edge of the belly when he'd cut six strips he spread them out in the 1:03:29 wood of the bow wiped his knife and his trousers and lifted the carcass of the Bonita by the tail and dropped it 1:03:36 overboard I don't think I can eat an entire one he said and Drew his knife 1:03:42 across one of the strips he could feel the steady hard pull of the line and his left hand was cramped anded Drew up 1:03:49 tight on the heavy cord and he looked at it in disgust what kind of a hand is that he 1:03:55 said crap then if you won't make yourself into a claw it w do you no 1:04:02 good come on he sought and looked down into the dark water at the slant of the line at it now and it will strengthen 1:04:09 the hand it is not the hand's fault and you have been many hours with a fish but 1:04:14 you can stay with him forever eat the bonit now he picked up a piece and put 1:04:20 it in his mouth and chewed it slowly it was not unpleasant Che it will he thought and get all the 1:04:28 juices would not be bad to eat with a little lime or with lemon or with 1:04:35 salt how do you feel and he asked the crap hand that was almost as stiff as 1:04:41 Rider mortis I'll eat some more for you he ate the other part of the piece that 1:04:47 he'd cut into he chewed it carefully and then spat out the skin How does it go 1:04:52 and or is it too early to know he took another full base and shoot it it is a 1:04:59 strong full blooded fish he thought I was lucky to get him instead of dolphin 1:05:06 dolphin is too sweet this is hardly sweet at all and all the strength is 1:05:11 still in it there is no sense in being anything but practical though he on my wish I had 1:05:18 some salt and I do not know whether the sun will rot or dry what is left 1:05:24 so I had better eat it all the one not hungry fish is calm and steady I will 1:05:32 eat it all and then I will be ready beep ban and he said I do this for 1:05:39 you I wish I could see the fish he thought he's my brother but I must kill him and keep 1:05:47 strong to do it slowly and conscientiously he ate all of the wedge 1:05:52 shaped strips of fish he straightened up wiping his hand on his 1:05:58 trousers no he said you can let the cord go hand and I will handle him with a 1:06:03 right arm alone until you stop that nonsense he put his left foot in the 1:06:08 heavy line of the left handed held and lay back against the pole against his 1:06:14 back God help me to have the crap go he said because I do not know what the fish 1:06:21 is going to do body seems calm he thought and following his plan but what 1:06:28 is his plan he thought and what is mine mine I must improvise to his 1:06:35 because of his great size if he were Jun I can kill him but 1:06:42 he stays down forever then I will stay down within forever he robbed the cramped hand 1:06:49 against his trousers and tried to Gentle the fingers but it would not open 1:06:55 Andi it will open with the sun he thought Andi it will open when the strong Rod tuna is 1:07:02 digested if I have to have it I will open it cost whatever it costs but I do 1:07:08 not want to open it now by force let it open by itself and come back of its own 1:07:14 accord after all I abused it much in the night when it was necessary to free and 1:07:19 untie the various lines he looked across cross the sea and 1:07:24 knew how alone he was now but he could see the prisons and the deep dark water 1:07:30 and the lines stretching ahead and the strange undulation of the Cal the clouds Part21 1:07:35 were building up now for the trade wind and he looked ahead and saw a flight of wild ducks etching themselves against 1:07:42 the sky over the water then blurring then etching again and he knew no man 1:07:48 was ever alone on the sea he thought of how some men feared being out of sight sight of land in a 1:07:55 small boat and knew they were right in the months of sudden bad weather but now they were in Hurricane 1:08:01 months and when there are no hurricanes the weather of hurricane months is the best of all the year if there is a 1:08:08 hurricane you always see the signs of it in the sky for days ahead if you were at Sea they do not see it unsure because 1:08:15 they do not know what to look for he saw the land must make a difference too in 1:08:21 the shape of the clouds but we have no Hur came coming now he looked at the sky and saw the 1:08:28 white cumulus built black friendly piles of ice cream and high above with the thin feathers of the cus against the 1:08:35 high September Sky like Bria he said better weather for me than 1:08:42 for you fish his left hand was still cramed but he was UN knotting it 1:08:49 slowly I wa to C he s it is a treachery of one's own body it is humiliating 1:08:57 before others to have a diarrhea from tment poisoning would a vomit from it 1:09:04 but a grant he s a v calbre humiliates one self especially 1:09:10 when one is a if the boy were here he couldn't rub it for me and lo it down from the for 1:09:19 Mard but Ed will Doan up then and with his right hand he felt 1:09:25 the difference in the bll of the line before he saw this slant change in the water then as he leaned against the line 1:09:32 and slapped his left hand hard and fast against his thigh he saw the lion slanting slowly 1:09:38 upward he's coming up he said come on hand please come 1:09:44 on the lion Rose slowly and steadily and then the surface of the ocean bulged 1:09:50 ahead of the boat and the fish came out he came out out unendingly and water 1:09:55 poured from his sides he was bright in the Sun and his head in backward dark 1:10:01 purple and in the Sun the stripes on his sides showed wide and a light lavender 1:10:07 his sword was as long as a b ball bat and tapered like a redar and he rose his full length from the water and then 1:10:13 re-entered it smoothly like a diver and the old man saw the great Scythe blade of his tail go under and the line 1:10:20 commenced to race out he is two feet longer than Miss GI 1:10:26 the old man said the line was going out fast but steadily and the fish was not 1:10:31 panicked the old man was trying with both hands to keep the line just inside of breaking 1:10:37 strength he knew that if he could not slow the fish with a steady pressure the fish could take out all the line and 1:10:44 break it he a great fish and I must convincing he thought I must never let 1:10:49 him learn his strength nor what he could do as he made his run if I were him I would put in everything 1:10:56 now and go until something broke but thank God they are not as 1:11:01 intelligent as we who kill them though they are more noble and more 1:11:07 able the old man had seen many great fish he had seen many that weighed more 1:11:13 than ,000 and he caught two of that size in his life but never 1:11:19 alone now alone and out of sight of land he was fast to the biggest fish that he 1:11:26 had ever seen and bigger than he'd ever heard of and his left hand was still as tight as the gripped claws of an eagle 1:11:34 it will uncramp though he thought surely it will uncramp to help my right hand 1:11:40 there are sweet things that are brothers the fish and my two 1:11:45 hands it must unced it is Unworthy of it to be cramped the Fisher slowed again 1:11:51 and was going at his usual pace I wonder why he jumped the old man saw 1:11:58 he jumped almost as though to show me how big he was I know no anyway he Part22 1:12:06 thought I wish I could sh in what sort of man I am but then he would see the gramp 1:12:14 hand but in Z I am more man than I am and I will be 1:12:20 so I wish I was the fish he thought with everything he has against only my will 1:12:26 and my intelligence he settled comfortably against the wood and took his suffering 1:12:32 as it came and the fish swam steadily and the boat moved slowly Through The 1:12:37 Dark Water there was a small sea Rising with a wind coming up from the East and 1:12:43 had known the old man's left hand was UNR bad news for you fish he said and 1:12:52 shifted the line over with the sacks that covered his shoulders he was comfortable but 1:12:57 suffering although he did not admit the suffering at all I am not religious he said but I 1:13:05 will say 10 our fathers and 10 ha mares that I should catch this fish then 1:13:12 promise to make a pilgrimage to the virgin of C if I catch him that is a 1:13:19 promise he commenced to say his prayers mechanically sometimes he would be so 1:13:24 tired that he could not remember their prayer and then he would say them fast so that they would come 1:13:30 automatically Hail Marys are easier to say than our fathers he thought Hail Mary full of grace the Lord 1:13:38 is with thee blessed art th among women blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus holy Mary Mother of God pray for us 1:13:44 sinners now and at the hour of our death amen and he added Blessed Virgin pray 1:13:50 for the death of this fish wonderful though he is 1:13:55 these prayers said in feeling much better but suffering exactly as much and perhaps a little more he leaned against 1:14:02 the wood of the ball and began mechanically to work the fingers of his left hand the sun was hot now although 1:14:09 the breeze was Rising gently I had better rebed that little 1:14:14 line out over this turn he said if the fish decides to stay another night I 1:14:20 will need to eat again the water is low in the bottle I don't think I can get anything 1:14:27 but a dolphin here but if I eat him fresh enough you won't be bad I wish a 1:14:34 flying fish would come on board tonight but I have no light to attract them your 1:14:41 flying fish is excellent to eat raw and I would not have to cut him up I must 1:14:48 save all my strength now Christ I did not know he was so big big out tell in 1:14:55 all he said in all his greatness and His 1:15:01 glory Alo it is unjust he thought but I 1:15:07 will show him what a man can do and what a man 1:15:12 endures I told the boy I was a strange old man he said now is when I must Pro 1:15:21 it the thousand times that he had proved it me nothing now he was proving it 1:15:27 again each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing 1:15:32 it I wish he'd sleep and I could sleep and dream about the Lions he 1:15:40 thought why are the Lions the main thing that is last don't think old man he said 1:15:47 to himself rest gently now against the wood and think of nothing he is working 1:15:55 work as little as you can it was getting into the afternoon 1:16:00 and the boat still moved slowly and steadily but there was an added drag now 1:16:05 from the easterly breeze and the old man rode gently with a small Sea and the 1:16:11 herd of a corn across his back came to him easily and smoothly once in the afternoon the line 1:16:18 started to rise again but the fish only continued to swim and a slight ly higher 1:16:24 level the sun was on the old man's left arm and shoulder and on his back so he 1:16:30 knew the fish had turned east of North now that he'd seen him once he could picture the fish swimming in the 1:16:36 water with his purple Bal fin set wide as wings and the great erect tail 1:16:42 slicing through the dark I wonder how much she sees at that depths the old man sought his eye is 1:16:50 huge and a horse with much L I can see in the dark once I could see quite well 1:16:57 in the dark not in the absolute dark but almost as it kept 1:17:03 Seas the Sun and his steady movement of his fingers had UNC cramped his left hand now completely and he began to 1:17:11 shift more of the strain to it and he shrubbed the muscles of his back to shift the herd of the cord a 1:17:18 little if you're not dire and fish he said aloud 1:17:23 you must be very strain he's all very tired now and he 1:17:30 knew the night would come soon and he tried to think of others things he thought of the big leagues to 1:17:36 him they were the Grand leagus and he knew that the Yankees of New York were playing the Tigra of 1:17:43 Detroit this is the second day now that I do not know the result of the wos he 1:17:49 thought but I must have confidence and and I must be worthy of the great Deo 1:17:55 who does all things perfectly even with the pain of the bone spur in his 1:18:01 heel what is a bone spur he asked himself want a spoiler w we do not have 1:18:09 then can it be as painful as the spur of a fighting in once you I do not 1:18:16 think I could endure that or the loss of the eye and of both eyes and continue to 1:18:23 fight as the fighting do man is not much beside the Great 1:18:28 birds and beasts still I would rather be that Beast down there in the darkness of 1:18:35 the sea and as sharks come he said a mount 1:18:41 if sharks come God pity him and 1:18:46 me you believes the grant deagu would stay with the fish as long as I will stay with this one you he thought I am 1:18:54 sure he would and more since he is young and strong also his father was a fisherman but would the Bon SP hurt him 1:19:01 too much I do not know he said aloud I never had a bon 1:19:07 SP as the sunet he remembered to give himself more confidence the time in The 1:19:13 Tavern at Casablanca when he had played the hand gang with a great nral from thean fos who was the strongest man in 1:19:20 the docks they had gone one day and one night with their elbows on a chalk line 1:19:25 and the table with their forearms straight up and their hands gripped tight each one was trying to force the 1:19:31 other's hand down under the table there was much betting and people went in and out of the room under the kerosene 1:19:37 lights and he had looked at the arm and hand of the Negro and the negro's face 1:19:43 they changed the referees every 4 hours after the first date so that the referees could sleep blood came out from 1:19:50 under the fingernails of both his and the Negroes hand and they looked each other in the eye and at their hands and 1:19:56 forearms and the betters went in and out of the room in sat on high chairs against the wall and 1:20:02 watched the walls were painted bright blue and were of wood and the lamps threw their Shadows against them the 1:20:09 Negro Shadow was huge and it moved on the wall as the breeze moved the lamps 1:20:15 the odds would change back and forth all night and I fed the Negro rum and lighted cigarettes for him then the NE 1:20:22 grow after the rum would try for a tremendous effort and once he had the old man who was not an old man man but 1:20:29 was Santiago well Campion nearly 3 in off balance but the old man had raised 1:20:35 his hand up to dead even again he was sure then that heab a negro was a fine 1:20:40 man and a great athlete beaten and at daylight when the Batters were asking that it' be called a draw and the 1:20:46 referee was shaking his head he had Unleashed his effort and forced the hand 1:20:51 of the Negro down down and down until it rested on the wood the match had started 1:20:57 on a Sunday morning and ended on a Monday morning many of the butters had asked 1:21:03 for a draw because they had to go to work in the docks loading saxs of sh or at the Havana Coal Company otherwise 1:21:09 everyone would have wanted it to go to a finish but e thing stood anyway and before anyone had to go to Part23 1:21:16 work for a long time after that everyone had called him the champion and there had been a return match in this braak 1:21:23 but not much money was bat and he'd won it quite easily since he'd broken the confidence of the Negro from TM fuos in 1:21:29 the first match after that he had a few matches and then no more he decided that he could beat 1:21:36 anyone if he wanted do badly enough and he decided that it was bad for his right hand for fishing he had tried to few 1:21:43 practice matches with his left hand but his left hand had always been a traitor and would not do what he called on to do 1:21:49 and he did not trust it the sun will bake it out well now he thought it should not cramp on me again 1:21:57 unless it gets too cold in the night I wonder what this night will 1:22:02 bring an airplane passed overhead on its course to Miami and he watched its 1:22:07 Shadows scaring up the schools of flying fish with so much flying fish there 1:22:13 should be dolphin he said and lean back on the line to see if it was possible to 1:22:19 gain any on his fish but he could not stated the hardness and water dropped 1:22:25 shivering that preceded breaking the boat moved ahead slowly and he watched the airplane until he could no longer 1:22:32 see it it must be very strange in an airplane he thought I wonder what the 1:22:38 sea looks like from that height they should be able to see the fish well if 1:22:43 they do not fly too high I would like to fly very slowly at 1:22:48 200 fathoms high and see the fish from above in the turtle boats I was in the 1:22:54 cross trees of the Mast head and even at that height I saw much the dolphin look 1:23:00 Greener from there you can see their stripes and their purple spots and you can see all of the school as they 1:23:08 swim why is it that all the fast moving fish in the duck current have purple 1:23:13 backs and usually purple stripes or spots the dolphin looks green of course 1:23:20 because he is really golden but when he comes to feed truly hungry purple 1:23:25 stripes show on his SIDS as on a Marvin can it be anger or the greater 1:23:31 speed he makes that brings them home just before it was dark as they 1:23:38 passed a great island of saraso weed that heeded and swung in the light sea as though the ocean were making love 1:23:44 with something under a yellow blanket his small line was taken by a dolphin he 1:23:50 saw it first when it jumped in the air true gold in the last of the Sun and bending and flapping wildly in the air 1:23:58 it jumped again and again in the acrobatics of his sphar and he worked his way back to the stern and crouching 1:24:03 and holding the big line with his right hand and arm he pulled the dolphin in with his left hand stepping on the 1:24:09 gained line each time with his bare left foot when the fish was at the stern 1:24:15 plunging and cutting from side to side in desperation the old man leaned over the stern and lifted the burnished gold 1:24:22 fish with its purple spots over the stern its jaws were working convulsively 1:24:27 in quick bites against the Hulk and it bounded the bottom of the skiff with its long flat body its tail and its head 1:24:34 until he clubbed it across the shining golden head until it shivered and was 1:24:40 still the old man unhoped to fish rebaited the line with another sardine 1:24:45 and tossed it over then he worked his way slowly back to the bow he washed his 1:24:51 left hand and wiped it on his trousers then he shifted the heavy line from his right hand to his left and washed his 1:24:58 right hand in the sea while he watched the sun go into the ocean and the slant of the big 1:25:03 cord he hasn't changed at all he said but watching the movement of the water 1:25:09 against his hand he noted that it was perceptibly slower oh L the two or together across 1:25:17 the stern and that will slow him in the night he said he's good for the night 1:25:23 and so am I it would be better to gut the dolphin a little later to save the 1:25:29 blood in the meat he thought I can do that a little later and lash the ores to 1:25:34 make a drag at the same time I better keep the fish quiet now and not disturb 1:25:40 him too much at Sunset the setting of the sun is a difficult time for all 1:25:46 fish he let his hand dry in the air and then grasped the line with it and eased 1:25:52 himself self as much as he could and allowed himself to be pulled forward against the woods so that the boat took 1:25:57 the strain as much or more than he did I'm learning how to do it he on this 1:26:04 part of it anyway and told the number he hasn't eaten since he took the bait and he is 1:26:11 huge he needs much food I have eaten the whole Bonito tomorrow I will eat the 1:26:17 dolphin he called it Dorado perhaps I should eat some of it when I clean it it will be harder to eat 1:26:25 than the bunny toe but then nothing is easy how do you feel El fish he asked 1:26:32 aloud I feel good my left hand is butter I have fold for a night in a day Paul L 1:26:41 sish he did not truly feel good because the pain from aord across his back had 1:26:46 almost pass pain and gone into a dullness that he mistrusted but I have had worse things 1:26:53 than that he thought my handers only cut a little the grand is gone from the 1:26:59 other my legs RAR on also know I have gained on him in the question of 1:27:06 sustenance it was dark now as it becomes dark quickly after the sun sets in 1:27:11 September he L against the worn wood of the bow and rested all that he could the 1:27:17 first stars were out he did not know the name of Ron but he saw it and you soon 1:27:23 May would all be out and he would have all his distant friends a face is my friend tool he said 1:27:31 Al loved I have never seen or heard of such a fish when I must kill 1:27:39 him I'm glad we do not have to try to kill the 1:27:44 Stars imagine as each day a man must try to kill the mour he thought the M runs 1:27:52 away but imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the 1:27:59 son we were born lucky he s then he was sorry for the great fish 1:28:07 that had nothing to eat in his determination to kill him never relaxed in his sorrow for him how many people 1:28:15 will he feed as s but are they worthy to EIT him no of course not they is no one 1:28:22 worthy of Edan from the manner of his behavior and his great 1:28:28 dignity I do not understand these things he thought but it is good that we do not 1:28:34 have to try to kill the Sun or the moon or the Stars it is enough to live on the sea 1:28:42 and kill our true Brothers now he thought I must think 1:28:48 about the drag it has its perils and and its merits I may lose so much line that I 1:28:56 will lose in if he makes his effort in the drag made by the ores is in place 1:29:02 and the boat loses all her lightness her lightness prolongs both 1:29:07 our suffering but it is my safety since he has Rich be that he has 1:29:12 never yet employed a better what passes I must gut 1:29:18 the dolphin so he does not spoil and eat some of him to be 1:29:26 strong now I will rest an hour more and feel the be is solid and steady before I 1:29:32 move back to the stern to do the work and make the decision in the mean time I can see how 1:29:39 he acts and if he shows any changes the ARs are a good trick but it has reached 1:29:45 the time to play for safety he has much fish she do and I I saw that the hook was in the 1:29:53 corner of his mouth and he has kept his mouth tight shut the punishment of the hook is 1:30:00 nothing the punishment of hunger and that he is against something that he does not comprehend is everything rust 1:30:08 now old man and let him work until your next Duty 1:30:13 comes he rested for what he believed to be two hours the moon did not rise now 1:30:19 until late and he had no way of judging time nor was he really resting except 1:30:26 comparatively he was still bearing the pull of the fish across his shoulders but he placed his left hand on the gumel 1:30:32 of the bow and confided more and more of the resistance to the fish to this GI 1:30:38 itself how simple it would be if I could make the line fast he thought but with 1:30:45 one small Lurch he could break it I must Cushing the ball of the line 1:30:50 with my body can at all times be ready to give line with both 1:30:56 hands but you have not slent yet old man he said aloud it is half a day and a 1:31:03 night no another a day and you have not slept you must devise a away so that you 1:31:08 sleep a little if he is quiet and steady if you do not sleep you might become 1:31:14 unclear in the hand I'm clear enough in the hand he on 1:31:19 too clear I am his CLE is the stars that are my brothers Still I must sleep they sleep 1:31:28 in the moon and the sun sleep and even the ocean sleep sometimes on certain 1:31:33 days when there is no current and a flat calm but remember to slow P off make 1:31:40 yourself do it and devise some simple and sure way about the lines now go back 1:31:46 and prepare the dolphin it is too dangerous to rig the ores as a drag if you must 1:31:52 sleep I could go without sleeping he told himself but it would be too 1:31:59 dangerous he started to walk his way back to the stern and his hands and knees being careful not to jerk against 1:32:06 the fish he may be half asleep himself he thought but I do not want him to rest 1:32:12 he must pull until he dies back in the stern and he turned so 1:32:18 that his left hand held the strain of the line across his shoulders and Drew his knife from its sheath with his right 1:32:24 hand the stars were bright now and he saw the dolphin clearly and he pushed the blade of his knife into his head and 1:32:32 Drew him out from under the stern he put one of his feet in the fish and slid him quickly from the vent up to the tip of 1:32:38 his lower jaw then he put his knife down and gutted him with his right hand scooping him clean and pulling the Gil's 1:32:46 Clare he felt the mo heavy and slippery in his hands and he slid it open and 1:32:51 were two flying fish inside they were fresh and hard and he laid them side by side and dropped the 1:32:58 guts and the gills over the stern they sank leaving a trail of phosphorescence in the water the dolphin was cold and on 1:33:06 leous gray white now in the Starlight and the old man skinned one side of him 1:33:11 while he held his right foot in the fish's head then he turned him over and skin the other side and cut each side 1:33:17 off from the head down to the taale he slum the carcass overboard and looked to see if there was any swirl in 1:33:24 the water but there was only the light of its slow descent he turned then and 1:33:29 placed the two flying fish inside the two fillets of fish and putting his knife back in its sheath he worked his 1:33:36 way slowly back to the bow his back was bent with the weight of the line across it and he carried the fish in his right 1:33:44 hand back in the bow he laid the two fets of fish out in the wood with a flying fish beside them after that he he 1:33:51 settled the line across his shoulders in a new place and held it again with his left hand rusting on the gumel then he 1:33:58 leaned over the side and washed the flying fish in the water noting this beat of the water against his hand his 1:34:05 hand was phosphorescent from skinning the fish and he watched the flow of the water against it the flow was less 1:34:12 strong and as he rubbed the side of his hand against the planking of the skiff particles of phosphorus floated off and 1:34:19 drifted slowly a Stern he is tiring or he is resting the old Part24 1:34:26 man said now let me get through the eating of this dolphin and get some rest 1:34:33 and a little sleep under the stars and with a night colder all the time he ate half of one 1:34:39 of the dolphin cets and one of the Flying Fish gutted in with its head cut 1:34:45 off what an excellent fish dolphin is to eat cult he said and what a miserable 1:34:51 fish raw I will never go in a boat again without salt or 1:34:57 limes if I have brains I would have splashed water in the bow all day and drying it would have made salt he 1:35:04 thought but then I did not hope to doin until almost Sunset still it was a lack 1:35:11 of preparation but I have chewed it all well and I'm not 1:35:16 nauseated the sky was clouding over to the East and one after another the star he knew were gone it looked now as 1:35:24 though he were moving into a great canyon of clouds and the wind had dropped there will be bad weather in 1:35:31 three or 4 days he said but not tonight and not 1:35:36 tomorrow rig now to get some sleep old man while the fish is calm and 1:35:43 steady he held the line tight in his right hand and then pushed his thigh against his right hands he leaned all 1:35:49 his weight against the wood of the B oh then he passed the line a little lower on his shoulders and braced his left 1:35:56 hand on it my right hand can hold of his long as it is braced he thought if it 1:36:02 relaxes in sleep my left hand will wake me as the line goes out and is hard on 1:36:09 the right hand but he is used to punishment even if I sleep 20 minutes or 1:36:14 a half hour it is good he lay forward cramping himself against the line with 1:36:20 all of his body putting all his weight on his right hand and he was 1:36:25 asleep he did not dream of the Lions but instead of a vast Scroll of porpuses 1:36:32 that stretched for 8 or 10 miles and it was in the time of their mating and they would leap High into the air and return 1:36:39 into the same Hall they had made in the water when they leaped then he dreamed that he was in 1:36:44 the village on his bed and there was a Norther and he was very cold and his right arm was asleep because his head 1:36:51 rested on it instead of a pillow after that he began to dream of the long yellow Beach and he saw the 1:36:58 first of the lions come down unto it in the early dark and then the other Lions 1:37:04 came and he rested his chin in the wood of the boughs where the ship lay anchored with the evening offshore 1:37:10 Breeze and he waited to see if there would be more lions and he was happy the 1:37:16 morning had been up for a long time but he slept on when the fish pulled on 1:37:21 steadily and the boat moved into the tunnel of clouds he woke with a jert of his right 1:37:28 fist coming up against his face and the line burning out to his right hand he had no feeling of his left hand but he 1:37:35 breaked all he could with his right and the line rushed out finally his left hand found the line and he leaned back 1:37:41 against the line and now it burned his back in his left hand and his left hand was taking all the strain and cutting 1:37:49 badly he looked back at the oils of line and they were feeding smoothly just then 1:37:54 the fish junked making a great bursting of the ocean and then a heavy fall then he jumped again and again and the boat 1:38:01 was going fast although line was still racing out and the old man was raising the Strand to Breaking Point and raising 1:38:07 it to Breaking Point again and again he had been pulled down tight onto the bow 1:38:13 and his face was in the cut slice of doen and he could not move this is what we waited for he s so 1:38:20 now oh let us take it make him pay for the line he s make him pay for 1:38:28 it he could not see the fish's jums but only heard the breaking of the ocean and the heavy Splash as he fell the speed of 1:38:36 the line was cutting his hands badly but he'd always known this would happen and he tried to keep the cutting across the 1:38:42 callous Bots and not let the lon slip into the Palm not cut the fingers if the ball was here he would 1:38:50 wipe the coils of life line he thought yes if the boy were here if the boy were 1:38:57 here the line went out and out and out but it was slowing now and he was making 1:39:04 the fish earn each inch of it now he got his head up from the wood and out of the 1:39:09 slice of fish that his cheek had crushed then he was on his knees and then he rose slowly to his 1:39:16 feet he was seing line but more slowly all the time 1:39:22 he worked back to where he could feel with his foot to coils of line that he could not see there was plenty of line 1:39:28 still and now the fish had to pull a friction of all that new line through the 1:39:34 water yes he thought now he is jumped more than a dozen times and filled b 1:39:40 saacks along his back with air he cannot go down deep to die where I cannot bring 1:39:45 him up he will start sapling soon and I must walk on him I wonder what started him so 1:39:53 suddenly could it have been hunger that made him desperate or was he frightened by something in the night maybe he 1:40:00 suddenly felt fear but he was such a C strong fish and 1:40:06 he seemed so fearless and so confident it is 1:40:12 strange you'll better be fearless and confident yourself old man he said 1:40:17 you're holding him again but you cannot get line but Soul me has to 1:40:24 circle the old man held him with his left hand in his shoulders now and sto down and scooped up water in his right 1:40:31 hand to get the crushed dolphin flesh off of his face he was afraid that it might nauseate him and he would vomit 1:40:37 and lose his strengths when his face was cleaned he washed his right hand in the water over 1:40:43 the side and then let it stay in the so water while he watched the first light come before the 1:40:49 sunrise he headed almost East he thought that means he's tired and going with a Part25 1:40:56 current soon he will have to Circle and H TR work 1:41:04 begins after he judged that his right hand had been in the water long enough he took it out and looked at 1:41:10 it Ander not bad he said and pain does 1:41:16 not matter to a man he took hold of the line carefully so so that it did not fit into any of 1:41:22 the fresh line cuts and shifted his weight so that he could put his left hand into the sea on the other side of 1:41:28 the ski you did not do so badly for something was less he said to his left 1:41:35 hand but there was a moment when I could not find you why was I not born with two good 1:41:43 hands he thought perhaps it was my fault and not training that one properly but 1:41:49 God knows he's had enough chances to learn he did not do so badly in the 1:41:54 night though when he is only cramped once and he camps again let the line cut 1:42:01 him off when he thought that he knew that he was not being clearheaded and he thought 1:42:07 he should shoot some more of the dolphin but I can't he told himself it is better 1:42:13 to be lightheaded than to lose your strength from nausea and I know I cannot keep it if I 1:42:19 eat it since my face was in it I will keep it for an emergency until 1:42:26 it goes bad but it is to L to try for strength now through 1:42:31 nourishment you're stupid he told himself eat the other flying 1:42:37 fish it was there cleaned and ready and he picked it up with his left hand and aided chewing the bones carefully and 1:42:45 eating all of it down to the tail it is more nourishment than almost any fish 1:42:50 she thought at least the kind of strength that I need now have done what I can he s let 1:42:58 him begin to Circle and let the fight come the sun was Rising for the third 1:43:06 time since he had put to Sea when the fish started to Circle he could not see but the slant of 1:43:13 the line the fish was circling it was too early for that he just felt a faint 1:43:19 slackening of the pressure of the line and he commenced to pull on it gently with his right 1:43:24 hand it tightened as always but just when he reached the point where it would break line began to come in he slipped 1:43:33 his shoulders and head from under the line and began to pull in line steadily and 1:43:39 gently he used both of his hands in a slinging motion and tried to do the pulling as much as he could with his 1:43:45 body and his legs his old legs and shoulders pivoted with the swing of the 1:43:51 pulling it is a very big circle he said but he is 1:43:57 circling then the line would not come in anymore and he held it until he saw the drops jumping from it in the sun then it 1:44:05 started out and the old man knelt down and let it go grudgingly back into the 1:44:11 dark water he's making the far part of his circle now he said I must told all I can 1:44:20 he so strain will shorten his Circle each time 1:44:25 perhaps in an hour I will see in now I must convince 1:44:31 him and then I must kill him but the fish kept un circling slowly 1:44:37 and the old man was wet with sweat and tired deep into his bones 2 hours later 1:44:44 but the circles were much shorter now and from the way the line sled he could tell the fish had risen steadily while 1:44:50 he Swan for an hour the old man had been seeing black spots before his eyes and 1:44:56 the sweat saled his eyes insult a big cut over his eye and on his forehead he 1:45:02 was not afraid of the black spots they were normal at the tension that he was pulling on the 1:45:07 line twice though he had felt faint and dizzy and that had worried him I could not fail myself and die in a 1:45:16 fish like this he said now that I have incoming so beautifully God help made 1:45:23 endure I'll say a 100 our fathers and a 100 hail marries but I cannot say them 1:45:30 now consider them said he s I'll save them later just then he felt a sudden banging 1:45:38 and jerking on the line he held with his two hands it was sharp and hard feeling and heavy his hitting the wire leader 1:45:46 with his spear he thought that was bound to come he had to do that 1:45:51 it may make him jump though I would rather he stayed circling now the jumps were necessary for him to 1:45:59 take air but after that each one can widen the opening of The Hook wound and 1:46:04 he can throw the hook don't jump fish he said don't jump the fish hid the wire 1:46:12 several times more and each time he shook his head the old man gave up a little 1:46:17 line I must hold his Bane where it is he thought mine does not matter I can 1:46:23 control mine but his pain could drive him mad after a while the fish stopped 1:46:29 beating at the wire and started circling slowly again the old man was gaining Lin 1:46:36 steadily now but he felt Fain again he lifted some sea water with his left hand 1:46:42 and put it on his head and he put moreon and rubbed the back of his neck I have no cramps she said he'll be 1:46:50 up soon and I can last you have to last don't even speak of it he kneeled 1:46:57 against the bow and for a moment SLI the line over his back again I'll rest now 1:47:03 when he goes out in the circle and then stand up and work on him when he comes in he 1:47:08 decided it was a great temptation to rest in the bow and let the fish make one Circle by himself without recovering 1:47:16 any line but when the strin sh the fish had turned come toward the boat the old man 1:47:22 Rose to his feet and started the pivoting and the weaving pulling that brought in all the line he 1:47:29 gained I'm tireder than I have ever been he s and now the trade wind is 1:47:37 rising but that will be good to take him in with I need that 1:47:42 badly I'll rest in the next turn as he goes out he said I feel much better than 1:47:49 in 20 three turns more I will have him his Straw Hat was far in the back of his 1:47:56 head and he saged down into the B with a pull of the line as he felt the fish turn you were no fish he s I'll take you 1:48:06 at the turn the sea had risen considerably but it was a fair weather Breeze and he had 1:48:12 to have it to get home I'll just dear saws and West he said a man is never 1:48:19 lost at Sea and it is a long island it was on the third turn that he 1:48:26 saw the fish first his ey first as a dark shadow that took so long to pass 1:48:32 under the boat that he could not believe its lengths no he said he can't be that thig but he Part26 1:48:43 was that big and at the end of this circle he came to the surface only 30 yards away and the man saw his tail out 1:48:50 of water it was higher than a big Scythe blade and a very pale lavender above the 1:48:56 dark blue water it red back and as the fish swam just below the surface the old 1:49:02 man could see his huge bulk and the purple stripes that banded him his dorsal fin was down and his huge peals 1:49:10 were spread wide by Miss Circle the old man could see the fish's eye and the two gray 1:49:16 sucking fish that swam around him sometimes they attached themselves to him sometimes they darted off sometimes 1:49:24 they would swim easily in his shadow F were each over 3 feet long and when they 1:49:30 swam fast they lashed their whole bodies like eels the old man was sweating now but 1:49:36 from something else besides the Sun on each calm Placid turn the fish made he 1:49:43 was gaining line and he was sure that until turns more he would have a chance to get the Harpoon in but I must must 1:49:50 get him close close close he thought I mustn't drive for the head I must get 1:49:57 the heart the calm and strong old man he 1:50:02 said on the next Circle the fish's back was out but he was a little too far from 1:50:07 the boat on the next Circle he was still too far away but he was higher out of 1:50:12 water and the old man was sure that by gaining some more line he could have him alongside it ringed his Haroon long 1:50:20 before and its coil of light rope was in a round basket and the end was made fast 1:50:25 to the bit in the bow the fish was coming in on his circle now calm and 1:50:31 beautiful looking and only his great tail moving the old man pulled on him all 1:50:37 that he could to bring him closer for just a moment the fish turned a little on his side and he straighten himself 1:50:44 and began another Circle I moved in the old man and said I 1:50:51 moved him then he felt faint again now but he held 1:50:56 on the great fish all the strain that he could I moved him he thought maybe this 1:51:03 time I can get him over P hands he thought hold up legs last for me head 1:51:10 last for me you never went this time I'll pull him 1:51:16 over but when he put all of his effort on starting at well out before the fish 1:51:21 came alongside and pulling with all his strength the fish pulled part way over 1:51:27 and then wred himself and swam away yes the old man said yes you're 1:51:35 going to have to die anyway you have to kill me 1:51:40 too that way nothing is accomplished he sought his mouth was too dry to speak 1:51:47 but he could not reach for the water now I must get him alongside this time he 1:51:53 thought I'm not good for many more turns yes you are he told himself you're going 1:51:59 forever on the next turn he nearly had him but again the fish red himself and 1:52:04 swam slowly away you were killing me fish the old man s but you have a right 1:52:13 to never have I seen a greater or more beautiful or a comma on one Noble 1:52:21 singman you Brother come on and kill me I do not 1:52:28 care Oh kill's whole now you're getting confused in the 1:52:34 head he thought you must keep your hand clear keep your hand clear and know to suffer like a man or a fish he 1:52:43 sck clear up head he said in a voice he could hardly hear but 1:52:51 run twice more it was the same on the turns I do not know the old man s he'd 1:53:00 been in the point of feeling himself go each time I do not 1:53:07 know but I will try it once 1:53:12 more he tried it once more and he felt himself going when he turned the 1:53:17 fish the fish rided himself and swam off again slowly with a great tail weaving 1:53:24 in the air again the old man promised although 1:53:32 his hands were mushy now and he could only see well in flashes he tried it 1:53:39 again and it was the same so he 1:53:44 thought and he felt himself going before he started I will try 1:53:50 it once again he took all his Bane and what was 1:53:56 left of his strength and his long gone pride and he put it against the fish's 1:54:01 Agony and the fish came over unto his side and swam gly on his side his bill 1:54:09 almost touching the planking of BFF and started to pass the boat long deep wide 1:54:17 silver and barred with purple and interminable in the 1:54:23 water the old man dropped the line and put his foot on it and lifted the Harpoon as high as he could and drove it 1:54:30 down with all his strength and more strength he had just summoned into the fish's side just behind the great chest 1:54:37 fin that Rose High in the ear to the altitude of the man's chest he felt the 1:54:43 iron go in and he leaned on it and drove it further and then pushed all his white 1:54:49 after after it then the fish came alive with his death in him and Rose High out 1:54:54 of the water showing all his great length and width and all his power and 1:54:59 his Beauty his sinder hang in the air above the old man in the skiff and he 1:55:05 fell into the water with a crash that sent spray over the old man and over all 1:55:10 of the skiff the old man felt faint and 1:55:16 sick and he could not see well but he cleared the Harbo 1:55:22 line and let it run slowly through his raw hands and when he could see he saw the 1:55:29 fish was on his back with his silver belly up the shaft of the Harpoon was 1:55:36 projecting at an angle from the fish's shoulder and the sea was discoloring with the red of the blood from his heart 1:55:44 first it was dark as a sh in the blue water that was more than a mile de 1:55:50 beat and it spread like a cloud the fish was silvery and still and 1:55:57 floated with the waves the old man looked carefully in 1:56:03 the glimpse of vision that he had then he took two turns of the Harpoon line 1:56:09 around the bit in the bow and laid his head in his 1:56:14 hands keep my head clear he said again the wood of the 1:56:21 bow I am a tired old man but I have killed this 1:56:27 fish which is my brother and now I must do this slave 1:56:35 work I must prepare the noses and the Rope to lash him alongside he thought 1:56:42 even if we were to when swamped her to load him and bailed her out this gift 1:56:47 would never hold him I must prepare everything then bring him 1:56:52 in and lash him well and Stu the Mast and set sail for 1:56:59 home he started to pull the fish in to have him alongside so that he could pass 1:57:04 a line through his gills and out his mouth and make his head fast alongside the 1:57:09 bow I want to see him be S and to touch and 1:57:14 feeling he's my fortune he thought but that's not why I wish to feel him I 1:57:22 think I felt his heart he thought when I pushed him our B shf the 1:57:29 second time bring him in now make him first and get the Noose around his tail and a Part27 1:57:35 another around his middle to bind him to the skiff you to old man he 1:57:43 said he took a very small drink of the water as very much l wor to be done now 1:57:50 that the fight is over he looked up at the sky and then out to his fish he 1:57:55 looked at the sun carefully it's not much more than known he s and the trade wind is 1:58:02 rising the lines all mean nothing now the boy and I will spice them when we're 1:58:09 home come fish he said but the fish did not come instead he lay there wallowing 1:58:16 now in the seas and the old man pulled the skiff up on when he was even with him and had the 1:58:22 fish's head against the bow he could not believe his size but he untied the Harpoon rope from 1:58:29 the bit passed it through the fish's gills and out his Jaws made it turn around his SW then passed the ropes 1:58:35 where the other Gil made another turn around the bill and nodded the double rope and made it fast to the bit in the 1:58:41 bow he CED the Rope then and went a turn to noose the tale the Fisher turned 1:58:47 silver from his orinal purple and silver and the stripes showed the same pale 1:58:52 violet color as his tail they were whiter than a man's hand with his finger 1:58:57 spread and the fish's eye looked as detached as the mirrors in a periscope 1:59:03 or as a saint in A procession it was the only way to kill in the old man said he was feeling 1:59:12 better since the water and he knew he would not go away and his head was clear he's over 1,500 lb the way he is he 1:59:20 thought maybe much more if he dresses out 2/3 of that in 30 cents a 1:59:28 pound I need a pencil for that he said my head is not that clear but I think 1:59:36 the great de Maro would be proud of me today I had no bone 1:59:41 spurs but the hands in the back H truly I wonder what a bon spur is he 1:59:48 thought maybe we have them without knowing of it he made the fish fast to Bow and Stern 1:59:55 into the middle Fort he was so big it was like lashing a much bigger ski from alongside he cut a piece of line and 2:00:03 tied the fish's lower jaw against his bill so his mouth would not open and I 2:00:08 would sa of as cleanly as possible then he stepped the Mast and with the stick 2:00:13 that was his Gaff and with his boom ragged the patched sail drew the bo 2:00:18 began to Mo and half lying in the stern he sailed Southwest he did not need a compass to 2:00:25 tell him where Southwest was he only needed the feel of a trade wind and the drawing of his saale I better have put a 2:00:33 small line on with his spoon on it and try and get something to eat and drink for the moisture but he could not find a 2:00:40 spoon and his sardines were rotten so he hulked a patch of yellow Gulf weed with 2:00:45 a gaff as they passed and shook it so that the small shrimps that were in and fell under the planking of a skiff there 2:00:52 were more than a dozen of them and they jumped and kicked like sand fleas the old man benched their heads off with his 2:00:59 thumb and forefinger and ate them chewing up the shelves and the Tails they were very tiny but he knew they 2:01:05 were nourishing and they tasted good the old man still had two drinks of 2:01:10 water in the bottle and he used half of one after he'd eaten the shrimps the skiff was sailing while considering the 2:01:17 handicaps and he stered the t under his arm he could see the fish and he had 2:01:23 only to look at his hands and feel his back against the stern and know that this had truly happened and was not a 2:01:30 dream at one time when he was feeling so badly toward the end he'd thought perhaps it was a dream then when he'd 2:01:39 seen the fish come out of the water and hang Motionless In The Sky before he fell he was sure there was some great 2:01:46 strangeness and he could not believe it then he could not see well although now 2:01:52 he saw as well as ever now he knew there was the fish and his hands and back were 2:01:59 no dream the hands cure quickly he thought i' GL them clean and the soft 2:02:05 water will heal them the Dark Water of the true Gulf is the greatest healer that there is all I must do is keep the 2:02:13 head clear the hands have done their wrong can we say over with his mouth 2:02:18 shut and his tail straight up and down we sail like brothers and his head started to become 2:02:25 a little unclear and he thought is he bringing me in or am I bringing him 2:02:30 in if I were toing him behind there would be no question nor if the fish 2:02:36 were in the scff with all dignity gone there would be no question either but 2:02:41 they were sailing together lash side by side the old man s that didn't bring me 2:02:48 in if it pleases him I am only better than him through trickery and he meant 2:02:53 me no harm they Saed well and the old man soaked his hands in the salt water and 2:03:00 tried to keep his head clear there were high cumulous clouds and enough surus 2:03:05 above them so that the old man knew the breeze would last all night The Old Man looked at the fish constantly to make 2:03:12 sure it was true it was an hour before the first shark hit him the shark was 2:03:19 not an accident he'd come up from deep down in the water as the Dark Cloud of blood had seled and dispur in the mild 2:03:26 deep sea he'd come up so fast and absolutely without caution that he broke 2:03:31 the surface of the blue water and was in the Sun but he fell back into the sea and picked up the scent and started 2:03:38 swimming on the course the skiff and the fish had taken sometimes he lost the scent but he 2:03:44 would Pi it up again or have just a trace of it and he swam fast and hard on the of course he was a very big moo 2:03:51 shark built to swim as fast as the fastest fish in the sea and everything about him was beautiful except his Jaws 2:03:59 his back was as blue as a swordfishes and his belly was silver and his hide was smooth and handsome he was b as a 2:04:06 sfish except for his huge Jaws which were in tight shock now as he swam fast just under the service with his high 2:04:13 dorsal fin knifing through the water without wavering inside the clothes d 2:04:19 lip of his Jaws all of his eight rows of teeth were slanted inwards that were not 2:04:24 the ordinary pyramid shaped teeth of most shocks they were shaped like a man's fingers when they are crisped like 2:04:30 claws they were nearly as long as the fingers of the old man and they had razor sharp cutting edges on both sides 2:04:39 this was a fish built to feed on all the fishes in the sea that were so fast and 2:04:44 strong and well armed that they had no other enemy now he's beat it up as he smelled the fresher scent and his blue 2:04:51 dorsal fin cut the water when the old man saw him coming he 2:04:56 knew that this was a shock that had no fear at all and would do exactly what he wished he prepared the harbone and made 2:05:03 the Rope fast while he watched the shark come on the Rope was short as it lacked 2:05:08 what he'd cut away to lash the fish the old man's head was clear and good now 2:05:13 and he was full of resolution but he had little hope and was too good to last he 2:05:20 thought he took one look at the great fish as he watched the sharp close in it 2:05:26 might as well have been a dream he thought I cannot keep him from hitting 2:05:31 me but maybe I can get him D to sh he thought bad luck to you mother the shark 2:05:40 closed fast to stern and when he hit the fish the old man saw his mouth open in his strange eyes and a clicking chop of 2:05:47 the teeth as he drove forward in the meat just above the tail the shark's head was out of water and his back was 2:05:53 coming out and the old man could hear the noise of skin and flesh ripping on the big fish when he ran the Harpoon 2:06:00 down onto the shark's head at a spot with a line between his eyes intersected with a line that ran straight back from 2:06:06 his nose there were no such lines there was only the heavy sharp blue head and 2:06:12 the big eyes and that clicking frosting all swallowing Jaws but that was the 2:06:17 location of the brain and the old man hid it he hid it with his blood mushed hands driving a good Harpoon with all 2:06:24 his strength he hid it without hope but with resolution and complete 2:06:30 malignancy the shark swung over and the old man saw his eye was not Al liive and 2:06:35 then he swung over once again wrapping himself in two Loops of the Rope the old 2:06:40 man knew that he was dead but the shark would not accept it then on his back 2:06:45 with his tail lashing and his Jaws clicking the shark plowed over the wat as the speedboat does the water was 2:06:52 white what his tail beaded and three qus of his body was clear above the water when the Rope came toed shivered and 2:06:59 then snapped the sharp lay quiet lay for a little while in the surface and the old 2:07:05 man watched him then he went down very slowly he took about 40 pounds the old 2:07:14 man said aloud he took my Haroon too no all a rope he s and now my fish bleeds 2:07:21 again and there will be others he did not like to look at the fish anymore since he'd been 2:07:28 mutilated when the fish had been hited was as though he himself were hit when I 2:07:34 killed the shot that hit my fish he thought and he was the biggest Deno that 2:07:39 I have ever seen and God knows that I have seen big 2:07:45 ones it was too good to last he thought I wish it had been a dream known that 2:07:51 I'd never hoped the fish and was alone in bed on the newspapers but man is not made for 2:07:59 defeat he said a man can be destroyed but not 2:08:04 defeated I'm sorry that I killed the fish though he thought now the bad time 2:08:10 is coming and I do not even have the Harpoon the D too is cruel and able and 2:08:17 strong and intelligent but I was more intelligent than he 2:08:22 was perhaps not he thought perhaps I was only better armed don't think or man he said aloud Part28 2:08:31 Sail on this C and take it when it comes but I must St K because it is all 2:08:38 I have left vet and baseball I wonder how the great deasio 2:08:44 would have liked the way I hid him in the brain that was no great thing he thought 2:08:49 any man could do it but do you think my hands were as great a handicap as the 2:08:55 bone spur I cannot know I never had anything wrong with my heel except the time the 2:09:02 stingray stung it when I stepped on him when swimming and paralyzed the lower 2:09:07 leg and made the unbearable pain think about something cheer for old 2:09:13 man he said every minute now you were closer to home you sail lighter from with the loss of 40 2:09:20 lb he knew quite well the pattern of what could happen when he reached the inner part of the current but there was 2:09:26 nothing to be done now kis he said Al I can lash my knife to the butt of one of 2:09:33 the ores so he did that with a tiller under his arm and the sheet of the sail under 2:09:39 his foot now he said I am still an old man 2:09:44 but I am not unarmed the breeze was fresh now and he sailed on well he watched only the 2:09:51 forward part of the fish and some of his hope returned it is Sully not to Hope be 2:09:57 s besides I believe it is a sin do not think about suing he thought there are 2:10:04 enough problems now without say also I have no understanding of it I have no 2:10:12 understanding of it and I'm not sure that I believe in it perhaps it was a 2:10:17 sin to kill the fish I suppose it was even though I did 2:10:22 it to keep me alive and seen many people but then everything is your sin to not 2:10:30 think about Sin it is much too late for that there are people who are paid to do 2:10:36 it let them think about it you were born to be a fisherman as the fish was born 2:10:41 to be a fish s Pedro was a fisherman as was the father of the Great deio 2:10:48 but he liked to think about all things that he was involved in and since there was nothing to read and he did not have 2:10:54 a radio he thought much and he kept on thinking about Sin you did not kill the 2:11:00 fish only to keep alive and to self for Fooled he thought you killed him for 2:11:06 pride and because you are a fisherman you loved him when he was a 2:11:11 lie that you loved him after if you love him it is not a sin to kill him 2:11:18 or is it more you Ain too much old man 2:11:24 he said aloud but you enjoyed killing the den to Soul he thought he lives on the live 2:11:31 fish as you do he is not a scavenger nor just a moving appetite as some sharks 2:11:38 are he is beautiful and noan knows no fear of anything I kill her in 2:11:45 selfdefense the old man said aloud and I killed him well besides he thought everything kills 2:11:53 everything else in some way fishing kills me exactly as it keeps me alive 2:11:59 the boy keeps me alive he thought I must not deceive myself too 2:12:05 much he leaned over the side and pulled loose a piece of the meat of the fish where the shark had cut him he chewed it 2:12:12 and noted its quality and his good taste it was farm and juicy like meat but it 2:12:17 was not r there was no springiness in it and he knew that it would bring the highest price in the market but there was no way 2:12:25 they keep it scent out of the water and the old man knew that a very bad time was 2:12:30 coming the breeze was steady and it backed a little further into the Northeast and he knew that meant that it 2:12:36 would not fall off the old man looked ahead of him but he could see no sails 2:12:41 nor could he see the H nor the smoke of any ship there were only the flying fish 2:12:47 that went up from his bow sailing away to at his side in the yellow patches of Gulf weed he could not even see a 2:12:56 bird he had sound for 2 hours resting in the stern and sometimes chewing a bit of 2:13:02 the meat from the Marlin trying to rested and to be strong when he saw the first of the two 2:13:07 shocks I he soved there is no translation for this 2:13:13 word and perhaps it is just a noise such as a man might make involuntarily feeling the nail go 2:13:20 through his hands and into the wood Banos he said aloud he had seen the 2:13:27 second fin now coming up behind the first and had identified the Miss shovel-nosed shocks by the brown 2:13:34 triangular th and the sweetening movements of the tail they had the scent 2:13:39 and were excited and in the stupidity of their great hunger they were losing and finding the scand and their excitement 2:13:46 but they were closing all the time the old man made the Sheep fast and 2:13:51 jammed the tiller and he took up the ore with a nice lash to it he lifted it as 2:13:56 lightly as he could because his hands rebelled at pain then he opened and 2:14:02 closed them on it lightly to loosen them he closed them firmly so they would take the pain now would not flinch and watch 2:14:09 the Sharks come he could see their wide flattened shovel pointed heads now and 2:14:16 their white tipped wide Cal fins there were hateful shocks bad smelling 2:14:21 scavengers as well as killers and when they were hungry they would bite it an or the rudder of a boat it was these 2:14:28 sharks that would cut the turtles legs and flippers off when the turtles were asleep in the surface and they would hit 2:14:34 a man in the water as they were hungry even if the man had no smell of fish blood nor a fish slime on 2:14:41 him the old man said ganos come on ganos 2:14:49 they chained but they did not come as the makeo had come one turned and went 2:14:55 out of sight under the skiff and the old man could feel the skiff Shake as he jerked and pulled in the fish the other 2:15:02 watched the old man with his slitted yellow eyes and then came in fast with his half circle of Jaws wide to hit the 2:15:09 fish where he'd already been bitten the line showed clearly on the top of his brown head and back with a 2:15:15 brain joined the spinal cord and the old man drove the knife on the ore into the juncture withdrew it and drove it in 2:15:23 again into the shark yellow gap-like eyes the shark let go of the fish and 2:15:28 sled down swallowing what he'd taken as he died the skiff was still shaking with 2:15:34 the destruction the other shark was doing to the fish and the old man let go the sheet so that the skiff would swing 2:15:40 broadside and bring the shark out from under when he saw the shark he leaned over the side and bunched at him he had 2:15:47 only meat and the hide was set hard and he barely got the knife in the blow hurt 2:15:52 not only his hands but his shoulder too but the shark came up fast with his head 2:15:58 out and the old man hit him squirely in the center of his flat topped head as his nose came out of water and lay 2:16:03 against the fish the old man withdrew the blade and punched the Shar exactly 2:16:08 in the same spot again he still oned the fish with his Jaws hoped and the old man stabbed him in his left eye the shark 2:16:15 still hung there no all the old man said and he drove the blade between the 2:16:21 vertebrae and the Brain it was an easy shot now and he felt the cartilage sever the old man Part29 2:16:28 reversed the ore and put the blade between the shark's Jaws to open them he twisted the blade and as the shark slid 2:16:34 loose he said go on galano slide down a mile deep go see your friend Med at your 2:16:42 mother the old man wiped the blade of his knife and laid down the or and he 2:16:47 found the sheet and the sail filled and he brought the skiff onto her 2:16:52 course they must have taken a court Rin and of the best meat he said 2:16:59 aloud I wish it were a drain and that I had never h him I'm sorry about it 2:17:07 fish it makes everything wrong he stopped and he did not want to 2:17:13 look at the Shish now drained of blood and a wash he loved the color of the 2:17:19 silver backing of a mirror and his stripes still showned I shouldn't have gone out so far 2:17:26 see he said neither for you nor for me I'm sorry 2:17:33 Fe now he said to himself look to the lashing in the night see if it has been 2:17:39 cut and get your hand in ordered because there still is more to 2:17:44 con I wish I had a stone for the night the old man said after he checked the 2:17:50 lashing on the or butt I should have brought a stone you should have brought 2:17:55 many things he s but you did not bring them all men though is no time to think of what you do not have think of what 2:18:02 you can do with what there is you give me much bir counsel he said 2:18:07 aloud I'm tired of it he held the tiller under his arm and soaked both his hands 2:18:13 in the water as the skiff drove forward not know how much that last one 2:18:19 to he said but she's much lighter now he did not want a sink of the mutilated 2:18:26 underside of the fish he knew that each of the jerking bumps of the Shar had been meat torn away and that the fish 2:18:33 and now made a trail for all shocks as wide as a highway through the sea it was a fish to keep a man all 2:18:41 andan don't take of that just rest and try to get your hands in shape to defend 2:18:46 what is left of him a blood smell from my hands means nothing now with all that sent in the 2:18:53 water besides they do not bleed much there's nothing cut that means anything 2:19:00 the bleeding may keep the left from cramping what can I think of now he s 2:19:08 nothing I must think of nothing and wait for the next one I wish it had really been a dream he 2:19:16 s but true knows it might have turned out 2:19:22 well the next chart that came was a single shovel Mouse he came like a pig 2:19:27 to the draa if a pig had a musle wine that you can put your head in it the old man let him hit the fish and then drove 2:19:34 the knife and the ore down into his brain but the shot jerked backwards as he rode and the knife blade 2:19:41 snapped the old man settled himself to steer he did not even want watch the big 2:19:48 shark sinking slowly in the water showing first life size then small then 2:19:54 tiny that always fated the old man but he did not even watch it 2:20:00 now I have the Gaff now he said but it will do no good I have the two ores and 2:20:08 the tiller and the short Club no they have beaten me he saw I'm 2:20:15 too old to Club shocks to death and I would try it as long as I 2:20:21 have the OES and the short club and the tiller he put his hands in the water 2:20:28 again to soak them it was getting late in the afternoon and he saw nothing but the sea in the 2:20:33 sky there was more wind in the sky than there had been and soon he hoped that he would see 2:20:39 land you're tired old man he said you're 2:20:46 tired and inside the Sharks did not hit him again 2:20:51 until just before Sunset the old man saw the brown fins coming along a wide Trail the fish must 2:20:58 make in the water they were not even quartering in the scent they were headed straight for the Skiffs swimming side by 2:21:05 side he jammed the tiller made the Sheep fast and reached onto the stern for the 2:21:10 club it was an or handle from a broken ore saw off to about 2 and 1/2 ft in 2:21:16 length he could only use it effectively with one hand because of the grip of the handle he took good hold of it with his 2:21:22 right hand flexing his hand on it as he watched the Sharks come they were both 2:21:29 ganos I must let the first one get a good hold and hit him on the point of the nose or straight across the top of 2:21:36 the head he thought the two sharks closed together and as he saw the one 2:21:41 nearest him open his jaws and sink them into the silver side of the fish he raised the the club high and brought it 2:21:48 down heavy and slamming onto the top of the shark's Bren head he felt the 2:21:53 rubbery solidity as the club came down but he felt the rigidity of bone too and 2:21:59 he struck the shark once more hard across the point of the nose as he slid down from the fish the other Shar had 2:22:06 been in and out and now came in again with his Jaws wide the old man could see pieces of the meat of the fish spilling 2:22:13 white from the corners of his Jaws as he bumped the fish and closed cled his Jaws he swung at him and hit only the head 2:22:20 and the shark looked at him and wrenched the meat loose the old man swung the club down on him again as He Slipped 2:22:27 Away to swallow and hit only the heavy solid rubberiness come on Gano the old man 2:22:33 said come in again the shark came in a rush and the old man hit him as he shut 2:22:38 his Jaws he hit him solidly and from his high up as he could raise the club this time he felt the bone at the base of the 2:22:45 brain and he hit him again in the same same place will the Shar tore the meat loose sluggishly and slid down from the 2:22:52 fish the old man watched for him to come again but neither shark showed and he 2:22:58 saw one in the surface swimming in circles he did not see the fin the 2:23:04 other I could not expect to kill the meard I could have in my time but I've 2:23:10 heard them both badly neither one can feel very good if I could have used a 2:23:16 bat with two hands I could have killed the first one surely even now we s he 2:23:22 did not want to look at the sish he knew that half of him had been destroyed the 2:23:28 sun had gone down while he'd been in the fight with the shars it would be dark soon he 2:23:35 said then I should see the glow of Havana if I'm too far to the Eastwood I 2:23:42 will see the lights of one of the new beaches I cannot be too far out now he 2:23:49 thought I hope no one has been too worried there's only the boy to worry of 2:23:55 course but I'm sure he would have confidence many of the older fishermen 2:24:01 were worry many others to he thought i' live in a good 2:24:06 town he could not talk to the fish anymore because the fish had been ruined too badly then something came into his 2:24:14 head a fish he said fish that you were I 2:24:20 am sorry that I went too far out I ruined us both but we have killed many 2:24:27 shars you and I and ruined many others how many did you ever kill old fish you 2:24:33 do not have that spare in your head for nothing he liked to think of the fish 2:24:38 and what he could do to a shark if he were swimming free I should have chopped the bill off to fight them with he s but 2:24:46 there was there was no Hatchet and then there was no knife but if I had and could have lashed it to an or bun what a 2:24:53 weapon then we might have fought them together what will you do now if they come in the night what can you 2:25:02 do fight them he said I'll fight them until I 2:25:09 die but in the dark no and no glow showing and no lights and only the wind 2:25:15 and the steady pull of the sails he felt that perhaps he was already dead he put 2:25:20 his two hands together and felt the bonds they were not dead and he could 2:25:26 bring the pain of Life by simply opening and closing them he leaned his back 2:25:31 against the stern and knew he was not dead his shoulders told 2:25:36 him I have all those prayers I promised if I caught the fish he sought but I'm 2:25:43 too tired to say them now I better get the sack and put it 2:25:48 over my shoulders he lay in the stern and steered and watched for the blow to come 2:25:55 in the sky I have half of in these Lo maybe I'll have the luck to bring the 2:26:01 forward half in I should have some luck no he said you violated your luck 2:26:09 when you went too far outside don't be sorry he said aloud and 2:26:15 keep aw and Ste you may have much luck yet I'd like to buy some if there's any place they saw 2:26:22 it he said what could I buy it with he asked himself could I buy it with a lost 2:26:29 Heron and a broken knife two bad hands your might he said Part30 2:26:37 you're triy to buy it with 84 days at Sea they nearly sold him to you 2:26:42 to I must not think nonsense he thought luck is a thing that comes in many forms 2:26:49 and who can recognize her I would take some in any form and pay what they 2:26:55 asked I wish I could see the glow from the lights you thought my wish too many 2:27:02 things but that is the thing I wish for now he tried to settle more comfortably 2:27:08 to steare and from his pain he knew he was not dead he saw the reflected glare of the 2:27:15 lights of the city in what might must have been around 10:00 at night they were only perceptible at first as the 2:27:22 light is in the sky before The Moon Rises then they were steady to see across the ocean which was rough now 2:27:28 with the increasing Breeze he stered inside of the glow and he thought that now soon he must hit the 2:27:35 edge of the string now it is over he thought they will probably hit me 2:27:42 again but what can a man do against them in the dark without a 2:27:48 weapon he was stiff and sore now and his wounds and all of the strained parts of 2:27:53 his body Hur within cold of the night I hope I do not have to fight 2:27:59 again he thought I hope so much I do not have to fight 2:28:06 again but by midnight he fought and this time he knew the fight was useless they 2:28:12 came in a pack and he could only see the lines in the water that their shs made and their phosphorescence as they threw 2:28:18 themselves in the fish he clubbed it heads and heard the Jaws chop and the shaking of the skiff as they took hold 2:28:25 below he clubbed desperately and what he could only feel and hear and he felt 2:28:30 something seiz the club and it was gone he jerked the tiller free from the 2:28:35 rudder and bited and chopped with it holding it in both hands and driving it down again and again but they were up to 2:28:42 the bow now and driving in one after the other and together tearing off the pieces of meat that showed glowing below 2:28:49 the sea as they turned to come once more one came finally against the head itself 2:28:55 then he knew that it was over he swung the tiller across the shock's head with the Jaws were caught in the heaviness of 2:29:01 the fish's head which would not tear he swung it once and twice and again he 2:29:08 heard the tiller break and he lunged at the sharp with a splintered butt he felt it go in and knowing it was sharp he 2:29:15 drove it in again the sharp let go and rolled away that was the last shark of 2:29:20 the back that came there was nothing more for them to 2:29:26 eat the old man could hardly breathe now and he felt a strange taste in his mouth 2:29:32 it was coppery and sweet and he was afraid of it for a moment but there was not much of it he spat into the ocean 2:29:39 and said e that galanos and make a dream you've killed a 2:29:46 man Ang was big now finally and without 2:29:51 remedy and he went back to the stern and found the jagged end of the tiller would fit in the slot of the rudder well 2:29:57 enough for him to steer he settled the sack around his shoulders and put the skiff on her gor he sailed lightly now 2:30:05 and he had no thoughts nor any feelings of any kind he was past everything now 2:30:10 and he sailed the gii to make his Home Port as well and as intelligently as he could 2:30:17 in the night sharks hid the carcass as someone might pick up Crumbs from the table the old man paid no attention to 2:30:24 them and did not pay any attention to anything except steering he only noticed out lightly and 2:30:31 how well this ski sa now there was no great weight beside her she is good they 2:30:38 she's sound and not armed in anyway except for the D that is easily 2:30:44 replaced he could fly was inside the current now and he could see the lights of the beach colonies along the shore he 2:30:52 knew where he was now and it was nothing to get home the wind is our friend anyway he's 2:30:58 on then he added sometimes and the great sea with our friends and our 2:31:06 enemies and Bandy thought bad is my friend just bed he thought bed will be a 2:31:14 great s it is easy when you're beaten you thought I never knew how easy it 2:31:23 was and what beat you he saw nothing he said aloud I went out too 2:31:33 far when he sailed into the Little Harbor and the light of the terce were out and he knew everyone was in bed the 2:31:41 breeze had risen steadily and was blowing strongly now it was quiet in the har though and he settled up onto the 2:31:48 little patch of shingle below the Rocks there was no one to help him so he pulled the boat up his far as he could 2:31:55 and he stepped out and made her fast to a rock he unstepped the Mast and furled 2:32:01 the sail and tied it then he shouldered the Mast and started de climb it was then he knew the depth of 2:32:09 his tiredness he stopped for a moment and looked back and saw in the Reflection from the street light the 2:32:15 great tale of the fish standing up well behind the Ski's Stern he saw the white 2:32:21 naked line of his backbone and the dark mass of the head with a projecting Bell 2:32:27 and all the nakedness between he started to climb again Ed the 2:32:33 topy cell and lay for some time with a mast across his shoulder he tried to get up but it was 2:32:40 too difficult and he sat there with a mast on his shoulder and looked at the road the cat passed on the far side 2:32:48 going about his business and the old man watched it then he just watched the 2:32:55 road finally he put the Mast down and stood up he picked the Mast up and put 2:33:01 it on his shoulder and started up the road he had to sit down five times 2:33:07 before he reached his Shack inside the shack he leaned a mast against the wall in the dark he found a 2:33:14 water bottle and took a drink then he lay down in the bed he pulled the 2:33:20 blanket over his shoulders and then over his back and legs and he slept face down 2:33:26 in the newspapers with his arms out straight the palms of his hands 2:33:31 up he was asleep when a boy looked in the door in the morning it was blowing 2:33:37 so hard that the drifting bools would not be going out the boy had slept late and then come to the old man's shark as 2:33:44 he had come each morning the boy saw that the old man was breathing and then he saw the old man's Part31 2:33:51 hands and he started to cry he went out very quietly to go to bring some coffee and all the way down 2:33:58 the road he was crying many fishermen were a around the skiff looking at what was lashed beside 2:34:04 it and one was in the water his trousers rolled up measuring the skeleton with the length of 2:34:10 line the boy did not go down he'd been there before and one of the fish men was 2:34:16 looking after the skiff for him oh is he one of the fishermen shouted SL ding the 2:34:24 boy called he did not care that they saw him cry let no one disturb 2:34:30 in it was 18 ft from noris to tail the fisherman who was measuring him 2:34:37 called I believe it the boy said he went into the Terrace and asked for a can of 2:34:44 coffee h with plenty of milk and shov in it anything more though afterwards I 2:34:52 will see what he can eat what a fish it was the proprietor said there has never 2:34:58 been such a fish those were two fine fish you took yesterday too damn my fish 2:35:04 the boy said and he started to cry again do you want a drink of any kind the proprietor asked no the boy said tell 2:35:12 him not to bother Santiago I'll be back tell him not son I am thanks the boy 2:35:20 said the boy carried the hot can of coffee up to the old man Shack and sat 2:35:25 by him until he woke fet looked as though he were waking but he'd gone back 2:35:30 into heavy sleep and the boy had gone across the road to borrow some wood to heat the coffee finally the old man woke 2:35:39 don't sit up to boy said drink this he poured some of the coffee in a glass the 2:35:45 old man took it and drag it Greg beat me manol in he said they 2:35:52 truly beat me he didn't beat you not the fish no 2:35:58 truly it was afterwards P MOS is looking after the skiff in the gear what do you want done 2:36:05 with a head did kri go chop it up to use in fish 2:36:11 tracks and this beard you keep it if you 2:36:16 wanted I want it the boy said now we must make our plans about the other 2:36:23 things did Bay search for me of course with Coast Guard and with 2:36:30 Plaines the ocean is very big and his skiff is small and hard to see the old 2:36:37 man said he noticed how pleasant it wasse to have someone to talk to instead of speaking only to himself and the 2:36:44 sea I missed you he said what did you 2:36:51 catch born the first day in one the second and two the third Jerry 2:36:58 go now we fish together again no I am not lucky I am not lucky 2:37:08 anymore hell with love the boy said I'll bring the L with me what will your 2:37:13 family say I do not care I caught to yesterday but we will fish together now 2:37:20 for I store have much to learn we must hit a good killing Lance and always have 2:37:26 it on board you can make the blade from a spring leaf from an old Ford we can 2:37:31 grind it in one of AOW it should be sharp and not tempered so it will break 2:37:38 my knife broke I'll get another knife and have this spring 2:37:44 ground how many days of heavy Brisa have we maybe three maybe 2:37:51 more I will have everything in order the boy said you get your hands well old man 2:37:57 I know how to care for them in the night I spent something strange and felt 2:38:03 something in my chest was broken get that world too the boy said 2:38:10 lie down old man and I will bring you your clean shirt and something to eat 2:38:15 bring in any of the papers of the time that I was gone the old man said you 2:38:21 must get well fast for there's much that I can learn and you can teach me everything how much did you suffer 2:38:29 plenty the old man said I'll bring the food in the papers the boy said rest well old man I'll 2:38:36 bring stuff from the drugstore for your hands don't forget to tell pedri or the 2:38:42 head is his no I will remember as the boy went out the door and down 2:38:48 the worn Coral Rock Road he was crying 2:38:54 again that afternoon there was a party of tourists at the Terrace and looking 2:38:59 down in the water among the empty beer cans and dead barracas a woman saw a great long white 2:39:05 spine with a huge tail at the end that lifted and swung with the Tide while the 2:39:11 East Wind blw a heavy steady sea outside the entrance to the har 2:39:17 what's that she asked a waiter and pointed to the long backbone of the great fish that was now just garbage 2:39:23 waiting to go out with a Time Jim the waiter said he shot he was 2:39:30 meaning to explain what had happened I didn't know sharks had such 2:39:36 handsome beautifully formed Tales I didn't neither her male companion 2:39:42 said up the road in his Shack the old man was sleeping again he was still 2:39:49 sleeping on his face and the boy was sitting by him watching him the old 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