https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42248298
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I thought it was about a crazy old man gone off the reservation, picking a fight with an innocent fish while ranting about the New York Yankees.
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I picked it up again, after the passage of some years, and found it incredibly poignant.
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He can't pull it in, so he takes hold of the line, beginning the back and forth : when the marlin runs, he gives the line slack; when the marlin is still, he pulls the line in.
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so, if you've seen Jaws or read James and the Giant Peach, you can probably not going to come to pass.
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an old man nearing the end of his days fighting against nature, time,death, a fish, able to boil all things down into one climatic struggle on the high seas.
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At the end, he did not succeed, at least not in the manner he'd foreseen, but he was, in an inimitable way, victorious.
