THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA: LIBRARY ROAD CLASSIC
Ils parlaient la nuit ou quand ils étaient pris dans un coup de chien. En mer, ne pas parler inutilement était tenu pour une vertu ; le vieil homme le pensait et s’en faisait un principe. Mais à présent il exprimait souvent ses pensées tout haut puisqu’il n’y avait personne que cela pût gêner.
Philippe Jaworski • Le vieil homme et la mer (French Edition)
Hour after hour they rowed, and the outline of Elephant Island slowly grew larger. At noon, they had covered almost half the distance; by one-thirty they were less than 15 miles away. They had had no sleep for almost eighty hours, and their bodies had been drained by exposure and effort of almost the last vestige of vitality. But the conviction tha
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- "Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say, the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society — things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed, sometimes rather suddenly." — E.B. White’s Timeless Letter to Someone Who Lost Faith https://fs.blog/eb-white-humanity/
The Old Man and the Sea,