#Old Man and the Sea

[balkanparamo]

The Old Man and the Sea

[enigmatic-elegancee]

It was way too good...

[lovequotesandcoffee]

Now is no time to think of what you do not have.

Think of what you can do with that there is

Ernest Hemingway, Old Man and the Sea.

[rose-tinted-nothing]

The Old Man & the Sea -Ernest Hemingway

[wanderingwomanwondering]

I think somebody in the 911 writers room has a love of Hemingway. That 612 scene with Buck and Dr Salazar harped on Italy and finding your level “in another country” which is the title of a Hemingway short story set in Italy in which the narrator narrowly escapes death but sustains a leg injury that needs rehab. Bonus point: 611 is called In Another Life which has to be a play on In Another Country, right???

Anyway the summaries and analyses that I read about the short story share A Lot in common with where Buck is rn in his healing journey. Lots of existential themes, bonding with people who’ve had a similar sense of dread/alienation over near-death experiences, etc. Also in the semi-autobiographical story, the young narrator (a stand in for Hemingway himself who rehabbed from a leg injury sustained while driving an ambulance for the red cross 🤔) befriends a major in the Italian army who lost his wife unexpectedly…to pneumonia which got me thinking about being worried about Buck’s lungs and the clot from s3 and the lung contusion in 611. From what I can figure that parallels Eddie most strongly and links Buck to Shannon in Eddie’s story…again! (but also loosely to Bobby’s past if I take off my clown goggles for a sec however bobby’s wife died of her burn injuries more than anything specifically lung related)

And if I squint, I can see parallels between The Old Man and the Sea and Eddie 👀 That would somehow feel interesting if not quite spot on given all the friggin focus on the beach/sea painting in Eddie’s house. Santigo (Eddie) going after the marlin (a relationship) and losing it to sharks (past unresolved trauma, old unhealthy emotional patterns, etc) but when he accepts his failure and returns home, he’s able to regain the faith of his peers, reconnect with his bestie, and fish on for another day. I feel like that could be a fun metaphor for lessons Eddie has learned and being ready to apply them in a new relationship…with Buck

Anyway I don’t know if this is a thing but it’s definitely got me thinking thoughts. Full disclosure: I haven’t read In Another Country and I did read Old Man and the Sea but it was a gazillion years ago so all my musings are based on internet summaries and thematic analyses. If a Hemingway scholar amongst the fandom wants to weigh in, I’m here for it!!

[hoard-of-quotes]

"It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready." ~ Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

[harrison-abbott]

I’m reading Hemingway’s Old Man and the Sea at the moment and really liking it. And it’s only now that I get where the Homer and General Sherman ^ story comes from; I just never got the in-joke reference before, for the last 30 years. 

[harringtons-cupid]

i feel like the Old man and the sea rn..

It's so windy here, rattling everywhere! I LOVE living by the sea in between hills (NOT)

[hey-missy-youre-so-fine]

Unpopular opinion of the day: The Old Man and the Sea was actually a really good book.

[artemismatchalatte]

I'm reading both Hemmingway's Old Man and The Sea and Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto.

I'm glad I didn't read Hemmingway when I was younger because, I probably would have found this story boring but it's slow in the same way that Kitchen and other Japanese translations have been.

At least in my experience, barring Murakami because he writes in a totally different style, both Convenience Store Woman and Strange Weather in Tokyo had this slowness and atmosphere. They're also very character centered narratives too.

So if you liked Old Man and The Sea you might like Kitchen, Convenience Store Woman or Strange Weather in Tokyo.

[original-kakabel]

That Scottish Play

we were all forced to read “classics” in school so reblog and put the one you actually ended up liking a lot and the one you can’t fucking stand in the tags

my fave is Lord of the Flies and I ironically enough want to burn every copy of Fahrenheit 451. trash

[bee1225]

The Big Fish

Do you think it is the end? I don't know about it, but just the engagement and purpose should align. Do you know the future and your purpose? Absolutely not. Do you actually care about it? You should, but you are not. Then, what are you seeking? The endless goal. The never-ending desire. The sense of being an accomplished person. The pride of being tall among the dwarf. What are you seeking? What can you do now? Have you set the foundation? Have you imagined the baseline of the hero you have made? The struggle he has made to take the leap. The leap seems easy, but have you imagined the foundation? How can you compete with the privileged? Have you thought about it? The baseline you have should be developed. The stage you have created should be able to withstand the reaction of your leap; if not, you know you may fall lower than your base. Then, what to do next? Be scared of the leap or leave it for the privileged? No, not that way is acceptable. The fish you are going to catch is big. You should first be able to know fishing, then the size of the fish you may catch, and the boat that should be able to carry the fish. If you have the desire to catch a big fish, you have to go far and deep with what you have physically and mentally. You should just be able to return with the catch.

[andreai04]

Besides, he thought, everything kills everything else in some way.

[birbokie]

fisherman really act like their biggest catch getting eaten by sharks was the biggest event of their life even though their wife is dead

[philiployd-author]

A Very Short Story by Ernest Hemingway

The major did not marry her in the spring, or any other time. Luz never got an answer to the letter to Chicago about it. A short time after he contracted gonorrhea from a sales girl in a loop department store while riding in a taxicab through Lincoln Park. Get the whole story…     A Very Short Story by Ernest Hemingway appears in the collection, In Our Time, available at Amazon.com. . Ernest…

[rystiel]

canon fic writer and creative mind stanley pines would do numbers on ao3 i think