Bonus extract:
“He always thought of the sea as 'la mar' which is what
people call her in Spanish when they love her. Sometimes those who love her say
bad things of her but they are always said as though she were a woman. Some of
the younger fishermen, those who used buoys as floats for their lines and had
motorboats, bought when the shark livers had brought much money, spoke of her
as 'el mar' which is masculine.They spoke of her as a contestant or a place or
even an enemy. But the old man always thought of her as feminine and as
something that gave or withheld great favours, and if she did wild or wicked
things it was because she could not help them. The moon affects her as it does
a woman, he thought.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
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