TUNA in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
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1 Maybe it will open when the strong raw tuna is digested.
2 I must surely remember to eat the tuna after it gets light.
3 Now," he said, when his hand had dried, "I must eat the small tuna.
4 I must remember to eat the tuna before he spoils in order to keep strong.
5 But as the old man watched, a small tuna rose in the air, turned and dropped head first into the water.
6 Now I will pay attention to my work and then I must eat the tuna so that I will not have a failure of strength.
7 He knelt down and found the tuna under the stern with the gaff and drew it toward him keeping it clear of the coiled lines.
8 He knew what a huge fish this was and he thought of him moving away in the darkness with the tuna held crosswise in his mouth.
9 Holding the line with his left shoulder again, and bracing on his left hand and arm, he took the tuna off the gaff hook and put the gaff back in place.
10 One hundred fathoms down a marlin was eating the sardines that covered the point and the shank of the hook where the hand-forged hook projected from the head of the small tuna.
11 The tuna, the fishermen called all the fish of that species tuna and only distinguished among them by their proper names when they came to sell them or to trade them for baits, were down again.
12 The tuna shone silver in the sun and after he had dropped back into the water another and another rose and they were jumping in all directions, churning the water and leaping in long jumps after the bait.
13 Just then the stern line came taut under his foot, where he had kept a loop of the line, and he dropped his oars and felt the weight of the small tuna's shivering pull as he held the line firm and commenced to haul it in.