"[...]
- What is that? - The woman asked the waiter, pointing to the long spine of the whale, which seemed no more than trash waiting to be picked up by the tide.
- Shark - said the waiter -. A shark.
wanted to explain what had happened.
- I did not know that sharks have tails so beautiful, so beautifully formed.
- Neither do I - said the man beside her.
up there beside the road in his house, the old man slept again. Still sleeping on his face, the boy was sitting next to him staring. The old dream of lions. "
The Old Man and the Sea , Ernest Hemingway
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a tiny piece of this great novel out of context can reimagine that shark who is that woman and her companion, the role of the bartender and what happened while the old is high with a guy who contemplates it, dreaming of a "disconcerting" sea \u200b\u200blions. For that matter, sure we can become a metaphor for the crisis in which we live ...
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