Old Man And The Sea

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and you had better work back to the last line now, in the dark or not in the dark, and cut it away and hook up the two reserve coils. So he did it. It was difficult in the dark and once the fish made a surge that pulled him down on his face and made a cut below his eye"(52).

Principle #3

Find pleasure in the small things

Summary

In the midst of trying to catch a fish, the old man begins to admire the bubbles in the water. He finds it interesting as to how the turtles eat the bubbles and their contents. The old man finds pleasure in the small things by admiring something as simple as a turtle eating a bubble.

Quotation

"The iridescent bubbles were beautiful. But they were the falsest thing in the sea and the old man loved to see the big sea turtles eating them. The turtles saw them and approached them from the front, then shut their eyes so they were completely carapaced and ate the filaments and all.

Principle #4

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