Industrious races find it very troublesome to endure leisure: it was the masterpiece of English instinct to make the Sabbath so holy and so boring that the English begin unconsciously to lust again for their work- and week-day.
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway *****
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Santiago hasn’t caught anything for 84 days. He is salao, unlucky. His
apprentice, the boy Manolin, fishes with a lucky boat. Santiago goes out on
day 85...
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