Showing posts with label Travel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Travel. Show all posts

Sunday, June 17, 2007

Spanish boatmen

"The Spanish boatmen will take you out to fish for them for a dollar a day... It is a back-sickening, sinew straining, man-sized job... but if you land a big tuna after a six-hour fight, fight him man against fish when your muscles are nauseated with the unceasing strain, and finally bring him up alongside the boat, green-blue and silver in the lazy ocean, you will be purified..."
- Ernest Hemingway.


I am at the beach, fishing today and suddenly Hemingway's words came up to my mind.