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He was an old man who fished alonein a skiff in the Gulf Stream...
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... and he had gone 84 days nowwithout taking a fish.
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In the first 40 days,a boy had been with him.
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But after 40 days without a fishthe boy's parents told him...
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... that the old man was now definitelyand finally salao...
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... which is the worst form of unlucky...
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... and the boy had gone at their ordersin another boat...
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... which caught three good fishthe first week.
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The old man had taught the boy to fish,and the boy loved him.
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The old man was gray and wrinkled,with deep furrows in the back of his neck...
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... and his hands had the deep, creased scarsfrom handling heavy fish on the cords.
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But none of these scars were fresh.
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They were as old as erosionsin a fishless desert.
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Everything about him was old,except his eyes.
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And they were the same color as the sea,were cheerful and undefeated.
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It made the boy sad to see the old mancome in each day with his skiff empty.
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He always went down to help him carrythe lines, the gaff and harpoon...
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... and the sail that was furledaround the mast.
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The sail was patchedwith flour sacks, and furled.
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It looked like the flagof permanent defeat.
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No one would stealfrom the old man...
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... but it's better to takethe sail and lines home...
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... as the dew was bad for them.
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Though he was sure nolocal people would steal...
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... the old man thoughta gaff and a harpoon...
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... were needless temptationsto leave in a boat.
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The successful fishermen were already inand had butchered their marlin out...
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... carried them laid full-lengthacross two planks to the fish house...
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... where they waited for the ice truckto carry them to the market in Havana.
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"Can I offer you a beer on the terrace?"The boy asked.
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"Why not?" the old man said."Between fisherman."
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Two beers, Martin. Please.
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They sat on the terrace and manyfishermen made fun of the old man.
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But he was not angry.
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He did not rememberwhen he had attained humility...
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... but he knew he had attained it...
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... and he knew it was not disgracefuland it carried no true loss of pride.
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Some of the older fishermenlooked at him and were sad...
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... but they did not show it.They spoke about the currents...
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... and the depths they'ddrifted their lines at...
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... and the steady, good weatherand of what they had seen.
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- Santiago.
- Yes?
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Can I go and get the sardines
for you tomorrow?
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Oh, no. No.
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You play ball. I can still row,
and I can still throw the net.
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I know where I can get four fresh baits.
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I still have mine from today.
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Let me get four fresh ones.
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- One.
- Two.
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Two.
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- You didn't steal them, did you?
- I would, but I bought these.
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Thank you.
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If I cannot fish with you,
I'd like to serve in some way.
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You bought me a beer.
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You are already a man.
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They walked up the road together.
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The old man stood the mastoutside his shack.
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In the old man's shack,there was a bed, a table, chairs...
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... and a place to cook with charcoal.
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On the brown walls, there was a picturein color of the Sacred Heart of Jesus...
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... and another of the Virgin of Cobre.
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These were relics of his wife.
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Once there had been a tinted photographof his wife on the wall.
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But he had taken it down becauseit made him too lonely to see it.
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It was on the shelf in the corner,under his clean shirt.
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Tomorrow is the 85th day.
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Eighty-five is a lucky number.
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How'd you like to see me bring one in
that dressed out over a thousand pounds?
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Are you strong enough now
for a truly big fish?
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I think so.
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And there are many tricks.
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Santiago, I could go with you again.
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We've made enough money.
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No, no. You are in a lucky boat.
You stay with them.
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Remember how long we went
without fish before?
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Then we caught big ones every day
for three weeks.
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I remember.
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I know you did not leave me
because you lost confidence.
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It was my papa made me leave.
I am a boy and I must obey him.
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Of course, of course.
It is quite normal.
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He hasn't much faith.
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- But we have, haven't we?
- Yes.
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If you were my boy,
I would take you out again.
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But you are your father's and your mother's,
and you are in a lucky boat.
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What do you have to eat?
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I have a pot of yellow rice and some fish.
Would you like some?
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No. I'll eat at home.
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- May I take the cast net?
- Of course.
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I have yesterday's newspaper.
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I will read the baseball.
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There was no cast net. The boy rememberedwhen they had sold it.
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But they went throughthis fiction every day.
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There was no pot of yellow rice and fish,and the boy knew this.
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He didn't know whether yesterday's paperwas a fiction too.
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The old man brought it outfrom under the bed.
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Keep warm, old man.
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Sit in the sun.
Remember, we're in September.
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The month of the big fish.
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Anybody can be a fisherman in May.
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I'll be back when I get the sardines.
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Then you can tell me about the baseball.
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- Hey, Manolin, come on.
- Play first base.
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Hey, yeah. Come on.
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- Manolin.
- A dinner for two, please. To take out.
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You don't eat at home anymore?
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- How much do you have to spend?
- Sixty cents.
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No luck yet, huh?
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You know, maybe it's not luck at all.
Maybe he's too old.
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He's not too old. You'll see.
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- I said, maybe.
- Not even maybe.
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All right.
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I only hope when I'm an old man
I have a boy to fish for me.
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When the boy came back,the old man was asleep in a chair...
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... and the sun was going down.
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His shoulders were still powerful,although very old.
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The neck was still strong too.
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The creases did not show so muchwhen the old man was asleep.
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His head was very old, though.
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And with his eyes closed,there was no life in his face.
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Wake up, old man.
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The old man opened his eyes,and for a long moment...
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... he was coming backfrom a long way away.
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Then he smiled.
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What have you got?
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- We're gonna have supper.
- I'm not very hungry.
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Come on and eat.
You can't fish and not eat.
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I have.
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You won't fish without eating
while I'm alive.
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Well, then you live a long time
and take good care of yourself.
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Who...? Who gave this to you?
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Martin. At the terrace.
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Well...
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...I must be sure and thank him.
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I thanked him already.
You don't need to thank him.
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They had eaten with no light on the table,and it was dark now.
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The old man had talked to the boyabout baseball as always.
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About the great DiMaggioand how he was himself again...
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... and about the other men on the team.
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Tell me about the great John J. McGraw.
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He used to come to the terrace sometimes...
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...in the olden days too.
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His mind was on the horses, I think,
as much as it was on the baseball.
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At least he used to carry lists
of horses in his pocket at all times.
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And frequently, he would speak
the names of horses on the telephone.
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He was a great manager.
My father thinks he was the greatest.
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That's because he came here
the most times.
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If Durocher had continued coming here...
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...your father would think
he was the greatest manager.
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Who is the greatest manager, really?
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I think they are all equal.
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Sometime I would like to take
the great DiMaggio fishing.
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They say his father was a fisherman.
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Maybe he was poor like we are,
and he would understand.
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You ought to go to bed so that
you'll be fresh in the morning.
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I'll take these things back to the terrace.
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- Good night. See you in the morning.
- You're my alarm clock.
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Age is my alarm clock.
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- Sleep well, old man.
- Thank you.
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Good night.
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The boy went out and the old man thought,"Why do old men wake so early?
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Is it to have one longer day?"
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Then the old man rolled up his trousersto make a pillow...
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... putting the newspaper inside them.
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He rolled himself in the blanketand slept on the papers...
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... that covered the springs of the bed.
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He was asleep in a short time...
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... and he dreamed of Africa,when he was a boy.
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He dreamed of the golden beaches and thewhite beaches so white they hurt your eyes.
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And the high capesand the great brown mountains.
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He lived along that coast now every night,and in his dreams...
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... he heard the surf roar, and sawthe native boats come riding through it.
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He smelled the tar and oakumof the deck as he slept...
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... and he smelled the smell of Africa thatthe land breeze brought with the morning.
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Usually when he smelledthe land breeze, he woke up...
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... and dressed to go to wake the boy.
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But tonight the smell of the land breezecame very early...
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... and he knew it was too early in his dreamand went on dreaming.
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To see the white peaks of the islandrising to the sea...
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... and he dreamed of the different harborsand roadsteads of the Canary Islands.
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He no longer dreamed of stormsnor of women...
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... nor of great occurrencesnor of great fish...
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... nor fights nor contests of strengthnor of his wife.
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He only dreamed of places now...
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... and of the lions on the beach.
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They played like young cats,and he loved them as he loved the boy.
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He never dreamed about the boy.
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In the dawn, the old man simply woke...
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... looked out the door at the dying moon,unrolled his trousers and put them on.
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Then went down to wake the boy.He was shivering with cold...
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... but he knew that he would shiver himselfwarm and that soon he would be rowing.
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The door of the housewhere the boy lived was unlocked...
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... and he opened it and walked in quietlywith his bare feet.
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The boy was asleep on a cot in the roomand the old man could see him clearly.
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He took hold of one foot gentlyand held it until the boy woke...
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... and turned and looked at him.
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The boy was sleepy,and the old man said, "I'm sorry."
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"It is what a man must do,"the boy answered.
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They walked down the road,and all along the road in the dark...
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... barefoot men were moving,carrying the masts of their boats.
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How did you sleep?
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Very well, Manolin. I feel confident today.
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I do too.
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I'll get the sardines. Be right back.
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Have another cup. We have credit here.
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The old man drank his coffee slowly.
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It's all he'd have all day,and he knew that he should take it.
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For a long time now, eating had bored him,and he never carried a lunch.
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He had a bottle of waterin the bow of the skiff...
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... and that was all he needed for the day.
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Good luck, old man.
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Good luck.
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There were other boats going out to sea...
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... and the old man heardthe dip and push of their oars.
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In the dark, the old man could feelthe morning coming.
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And as he rode, he heard the tremblingsound as flying fish left the water...
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... and the hissing their stiff, set wingsmade as they soared away in the darkness.
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He was very fond of flying fish, as theywere his principal friends in the ocean.
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He was sorry for the birds,especially the small, delicate, dark terns...
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... that were always flying and lookingand almost never finding.
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He thought, "The birds havea harder life than we do...
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... except for the robber birdsand the heavy, strong ones.
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Why do they make birds so delicate andfine when the ocean can be so cruel?
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She is kind and very beautiful,but she can be so cruel. "
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The sun rose from the sea, andthe old man could see other boats...
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... low on the water and well in towardthe shore, spread out across the current.
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He always thought of the sea as la mar...
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... which is what people call herin Spanish when they love her.
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Sometimes those who love hersay bad things of her...
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... but they are always saidas though she were a woman.
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Some of the younger fishermen spoke of heras a contestant or a place or an enemy...
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... but the old man had alwaysthought of her as feminine...
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... and as something that gaveor withheld great favors.
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"The moon affects her as it does a woman,"he thought.
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Before it was light, he had his baits outand was drifting with the current.
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One bait was down 40 fathoms,the second was at 75...
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... and the third and fourth were downin the blue water at 100 and 125 fathoms.
238
00:24:12,451 --> 00:24:16,649
Then the sun was brighter and the glarecame on the water, and as it rose clear...
239
00:24:16,822 --> 00:24:20,155
... the flat sea sent it back to his eyesso it hurt sharply...
240
00:24:20,325 --> 00:24:23,089
... and he rode without looking into it.
241
00:24:23,262 --> 00:24:28,063
He looked down and watched the linesthat went down into the dark of the water.
242
00:24:28,233 --> 00:24:31,669
Each bait hung head-downwith the shank of the hook inside...
243
00:24:31,837 --> 00:24:34,135
... tight and sewed solid.
244
00:24:34,373 --> 00:24:36,273
All of the projecting part of the hook...
245
00:24:36,441 --> 00:24:39,001
... the curve and the point,was covered with sardines...
246
00:24:39,177 --> 00:24:44,342
... each sardine hooked through both eyes sothey made a garland of the projecting steel.
247
00:24:44,516 --> 00:24:47,041
There was no part of the hookthat a fish could feel...
248
00:24:47,219 --> 00:24:49,585
... that was not sweet-smellingand good-tasting.
249
00:24:50,589 --> 00:24:53,080
"I keep them with precision," he thought.
250
00:24:53,392 --> 00:24:55,860
"Only, I have no luck anymore.
251
00:24:56,028 --> 00:24:58,462
But who knows? Maybe today.
252
00:24:58,630 --> 00:25:01,155
Every day is a new day.
253
00:25:02,234 --> 00:25:05,294
It is better to be lucky,but I would rather be exact.
254
00:25:05,470 --> 00:25:08,234
Then when luck comes, you are ready. "
255
00:25:14,046 --> 00:25:15,911
The sun was two hours higher now...
256
00:25:16,081 --> 00:25:19,881
... and it did not hurt his eyes so muchto look into the east.
257
00:25:20,419 --> 00:25:23,445
Just then he saw a man-o'-war bird.
258
00:25:27,092 --> 00:25:32,962
He made a quick drop, slanting down on hisbackswept wings, and then circled again.
259
00:25:33,165 --> 00:25:36,157
He's not just looking.
He's found something.
260
00:26:10,869 --> 00:26:12,803
You will make a beautiful bait.
261
00:26:18,777 --> 00:26:23,339
He did not remember when he'd first startedto talk aloud when he was by himself.
262
00:26:23,515 --> 00:26:26,746
In the old days, he had sungat night when he was alone...
263
00:26:26,918 --> 00:26:29,182
... steering on his watch on the turtle boats.
264
00:26:29,354 --> 00:26:33,586
He had probably started to talk aloud,when alone, when the boy had left...
265
00:26:33,759 --> 00:26:35,192
... but he did not remember.
266
00:26:35,360 --> 00:26:39,387
It was considered a virtuenot to talk unnecessarily at sea...
267
00:26:39,564 --> 00:26:43,022
... and the old man had alwaysconsidered it so and respected it.
268
00:26:43,201 --> 00:26:45,761
But now he said his thoughtsaloud many times...
269
00:26:45,937 --> 00:26:48,235
... since there was no one they could annoy.
270
00:26:48,407 --> 00:26:51,604
"If the others heard me," he thought,"they would think I am crazy.
271
00:26:51,777 --> 00:26:54,473
But since I am not crazy, I do not care.
272
00:26:54,880 --> 00:27:00,079
And the rich have radios to talk to themon their boats, to bring them the baseball. "
273
00:27:04,856 --> 00:27:07,825
Yes. Yes.
274
00:27:16,935 --> 00:27:20,393
Then he felt something hardand unbelievably heavy.
275
00:27:20,572 --> 00:27:22,267
It was the weight of the fish...
276
00:27:22,441 --> 00:27:25,433
... and he let the line slipdown, down, down...
277
00:27:25,610 --> 00:27:28,306
... unrolling off the firstof the two reserve coils.
278
00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:31,779
This far out, he must be huge in this month.
279
00:27:35,253 --> 00:27:37,813
Eat them, fish. Eat them.
280
00:27:37,989 --> 00:27:39,923
Please eat them.
281
00:27:40,192 --> 00:27:42,126
How fresh they are...
282
00:27:42,294 --> 00:27:45,593
...and you down deep
in that cold water in the dark.
283
00:27:48,967 --> 00:27:50,195
Come on, now.
284
00:27:50,368 --> 00:27:52,268
Make another turn.
285
00:27:52,537 --> 00:27:55,665
Then eat them. Just smell the sardines.
286
00:27:55,841 --> 00:27:57,809
Then there is the tuna...
287
00:27:57,976 --> 00:28:00,604
...cold and hard and lovely.
288
00:28:02,314 --> 00:28:04,214
Come on, fish. Eat them.
289
00:28:04,382 --> 00:28:06,247
Don't be shy.
290
00:28:09,387 --> 00:28:11,082
He'll take it.
291
00:28:11,256 --> 00:28:13,747
God help him to take it.
292
00:28:17,329 --> 00:28:19,695
He can't have gone.
293
00:28:20,098 --> 00:28:24,899
God knows he can't have gone.
He must be making another turn.
294
00:28:25,437 --> 00:28:29,669
Perhaps he has been hooked before,
and he remembers part of it.
295
00:28:32,377 --> 00:28:34,902
He was just turning. He's going to take it.
296
00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:36,877
What a fish!
297
00:28:37,382 --> 00:28:40,180
Now he has it sideways in his mouth...
298
00:28:40,685 --> 00:28:42,585
...and he's going away with it.
299
00:28:44,055 --> 00:28:47,513
As it went down, slipping lightly throughthe old man's fingers...
300
00:28:47,692 --> 00:28:50,024
... he could still feel the great weight...
301
00:28:50,195 --> 00:28:54,359
... though the pressure of his thumband finger were almost imperceptible.
302
00:28:57,736 --> 00:28:59,727
He's taken it.
303
00:29:00,639 --> 00:29:02,607
Now let him eat it.
304
00:29:02,974 --> 00:29:05,238
Eat it good, now, fish.
305
00:29:05,410 --> 00:29:07,105
Go on, eat it.
306
00:29:07,279 --> 00:29:11,807
Eat it until the point of the hook
goes into your heart and kills you...
307
00:29:12,450 --> 00:29:18,616
...then come up nice and easy
and let me put the harpoon into you.
308
00:29:23,161 --> 00:29:26,528
Now, are you ready?
309
00:29:26,998 --> 00:29:29,023
Have you been long enough at table?
310
00:29:40,979 --> 00:29:45,313
Now the fish was struck, and the old mancould feel that he was hooked.
311
00:29:45,884 --> 00:29:50,218
Now he should run with the line or jumpor sound to the depths below...
312
00:29:50,388 --> 00:29:52,219
... but nothing happened.
313
00:29:52,390 --> 00:29:54,858
The fish just moved away slowly...
314
00:29:55,026 --> 00:29:57,995
... and the old man could notraise him an inch.
315
00:29:58,163 --> 00:30:01,496
His line was strongand made for heavy fish...
316
00:30:01,666 --> 00:30:05,932
... and he held it until it was so tautthat beads of water were jumping from it.
317
00:30:07,305 --> 00:30:09,739
Then the boat began to move...
318
00:30:09,908 --> 00:30:12,502
... slowly off toward the northwest.
319
00:30:12,677 --> 00:30:16,044
The old man leaned back against the pull.
320
00:30:16,481 --> 00:30:20,645
The fish moved steadily, and theytraveled slowly on the calm water.
321
00:30:20,819 --> 00:30:24,755
The other baits were still in the water,but there was nothing to be done.
322
00:30:37,902 --> 00:30:39,597
This will kill him.
323
00:30:40,071 --> 00:30:42,869
He can't keep this up forever.
324
00:30:55,353 --> 00:30:59,289
But four hours later, the fish was stillswimming steadily out to sea...
325
00:30:59,457 --> 00:31:04,417
... towing the skiff, and the old manwas still braced solidly.
326
00:31:05,063 --> 00:31:08,123
"What a fish to pull like that!" he thought.
327
00:31:08,433 --> 00:31:11,266
"He must have his mouthshut tight on the wire.
328
00:31:11,436 --> 00:31:15,566
I wish I could see him only onceto know what I have against me. "
329
00:31:16,074 --> 00:31:19,840
There was no land in sight now."That makes no difference," he thought.
330
00:31:20,145 --> 00:31:24,309
"I can always come in on the glareoff the lights from Havana. "
331
00:31:25,083 --> 00:31:29,042
It was noon when I hooked him,
and I have not yet seen him.
332
00:31:36,428 --> 00:31:38,953
I wish the boy was here.
333
00:31:50,008 --> 00:31:53,967
I'm being towed by a fish,
and I am the towing bitt.
334
00:31:54,479 --> 00:31:57,880
"What I will do if he decides to go down,I don't know.
335
00:31:58,249 --> 00:32:00,911
What I'll do if he soundsand dives, I don't know.
336
00:32:01,086 --> 00:32:05,489
I'll do something.There are plenty of things I can do.
337
00:32:07,025 --> 00:32:10,961
I could make the line fast, " he thought,"but then he could break it.
338
00:32:11,596 --> 00:32:16,659
I must hold him all I can and thengive him line when he must have it.
339
00:32:17,402 --> 00:32:21,099
Thank God he is travelingand not going down. "
340
00:32:24,776 --> 00:32:27,267
It was cold after the sun went down...
341
00:32:27,445 --> 00:32:32,940
... and the old man's sweat dried coldon his back and his arms and his old legs.
342
00:32:33,318 --> 00:32:36,287
"He didn't come up when the sun set,"he thought.
343
00:32:36,554 --> 00:32:38,784
"Maybe he will come up with the moon.
344
00:32:38,957 --> 00:32:41,983
If he does not do that, maybe he willcome up with the sunrise.
345
00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:43,627
I wish I could see him.
346
00:32:43,795 --> 00:32:47,788
I wish I could see him only onceto know what I have against me. "
347
00:32:48,466 --> 00:32:52,368
Two porpoises came round the boat,he could hear them rolling and blowing.
348
00:32:52,537 --> 00:32:55,529
He could tell the difference betweenthe noise the male made...
349
00:32:55,707 --> 00:32:57,937
... and the sighing blow of the female.
350
00:32:58,109 --> 00:32:59,804
"They're good," he thought.
351
00:32:59,978 --> 00:33:02,913
"They play and make jokesand love one another.
352
00:33:03,081 --> 00:33:05,675
They are our brothers, like the flying fish. "
353
00:33:07,786 --> 00:33:10,311
Then he began to pity the great fishhe had hooked.
354
00:33:10,955 --> 00:33:13,515
"He is wonderful and strange," he thought.
355
00:33:13,825 --> 00:33:16,589
"Who knows how old he is."
356
00:33:17,462 --> 00:33:21,228
Never have I had such a strong fish...
357
00:33:21,399 --> 00:33:23,993
...or one that acted so strangely.
358
00:33:24,536 --> 00:33:27,437
Maybe he's too wise to jump.
359
00:33:28,473 --> 00:33:31,169
He could ruin me with a jump.
360
00:33:32,577 --> 00:33:35,705
Or one quick rush.
361
00:33:37,015 --> 00:33:39,711
Maybe he has been hooked
many times before...
362
00:33:39,884 --> 00:33:42,876
...and he knows this is how
he must make his fight.
363
00:33:47,425 --> 00:33:50,121
He took the bait like a male.
364
00:33:50,962 --> 00:33:53,430
He moves like a male.
365
00:33:54,199 --> 00:33:56,724
There is no panic in his fight.
366
00:34:01,105 --> 00:34:07,169
I wonder if he has a plan
or if he's just as desperate as I am.
367
00:34:08,746 --> 00:34:11,840
I wish the boy was here.
368
00:34:19,123 --> 00:34:23,287
The fish never changed his coursenor his direction all that night...
369
00:34:23,461 --> 00:34:26,589
... as far as the old man could tellfrom watching the stars.
370
00:34:27,932 --> 00:34:32,335
He felt the strength of the great fish movingsteadily toward what he had chosen...
371
00:34:32,503 --> 00:34:35,267
... and he thought,"When once through my treachery...
372
00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:38,500
... it had been necessary for himto make a choice...
373
00:34:38,676 --> 00:34:41,338
... his choice had been to stayin the deep water...
374
00:34:41,512 --> 00:34:44,538
... far out beyond all snares and trapsand treacheries.
375
00:34:44,716 --> 00:34:48,379
My choice was to go there and find himbeyond all people.
376
00:34:48,586 --> 00:34:50,986
Beyond all people in the world.
377
00:34:51,155 --> 00:34:55,251
Now we are joined togetherand have been since noon.
378
00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:58,593
And no one to help either one of us. "
379
00:35:54,118 --> 00:35:58,714
"I have lost 200 fathoms of good lineand hooks and leaders, " he thought.
380
00:35:59,590 --> 00:36:01,353
"That can be replaced.
381
00:36:01,526 --> 00:36:06,259
But who replaces this fishif I hook some fish and it cuts him off?
382
00:36:07,732 --> 00:36:11,327
I don't know what the fish wasthat took the bait just now.
383
00:36:11,502 --> 00:36:15,962
Could have been a marlin or a broadbillor a shark. I never felt him.
384
00:36:16,140 --> 00:36:19,200
I had to get rid of him too fast. "
385
00:36:37,795 --> 00:36:41,060
"I wonder what he made that lurch for,"he thought.
386
00:36:41,232 --> 00:36:44,531
"The wire must have slippedon the great hill of his back.
387
00:36:44,702 --> 00:36:48,536
Certainly his back cannotfeel as badly as mine does...
388
00:36:48,706 --> 00:36:51,641
... and he cannot pull this skiff forever...
389
00:36:51,809 --> 00:36:54,835
... no matter how strong he is. "
390
00:37:05,423 --> 00:37:08,085
"Please, God, let him jump.
391
00:37:09,427 --> 00:37:14,194
Maybe if I can increase the tension a littlemore, it will hurt him, and he will jump.
392
00:37:14,832 --> 00:37:18,666
Let him jump so that he will fill the sacsalong his backbone with air...
393
00:37:18,836 --> 00:37:22,135
... and then he cannot go deep to die. "
394
00:37:23,541 --> 00:37:27,375
Fish, I love you
and I respect you very much...
395
00:37:27,545 --> 00:37:31,675
...but I will kill you
before this day ends.
396
00:37:34,986 --> 00:37:38,387
A small bird came toward the skifffrom the north.
397
00:37:38,556 --> 00:37:41,957
He was a warblerand flying very low over the water.
398
00:37:42,727 --> 00:37:45,787
And the old man could seethat he was very tired.
399
00:37:49,667 --> 00:37:51,464
Hey...
400
00:37:51,636 --> 00:37:53,604
...how old are you?
401
00:37:54,839 --> 00:37:56,329
Is this your first trip?
402
00:37:57,508 --> 00:37:59,339
Why are you so tired?
403
00:38:01,312 --> 00:38:04,076
What are birds coming to anyway?
404
00:38:04,248 --> 00:38:07,445
"The hawks," he thought,"that come out to sea to meet them."
405
00:38:07,618 --> 00:38:11,714
But he said nothing of this to the bird,who could not understand him anyway...
406
00:38:11,889 --> 00:38:14,585
... and who'd learn about the hawkssoon enough.
407
00:38:14,759 --> 00:38:16,852
It is all right, small bird.
408
00:38:17,028 --> 00:38:19,622
You rest for a minute.
409
00:38:19,797 --> 00:38:23,631
But then you must go in, and you must
take your chances like every man...
410
00:38:23,801 --> 00:38:26,770
...and every fish and every bird must do.
411
00:38:29,807 --> 00:38:34,506
I wish I could hoist my sail and take you in
with the small breeze that's rising...
412
00:38:34,679 --> 00:38:36,909
...but I'm with a friend.
413
00:38:52,463 --> 00:38:54,727
Something hurt him.
414
00:38:58,136 --> 00:39:01,003
You're feeling it now, fish.
415
00:39:03,307 --> 00:39:05,867
And so, God knows, am I.
416
00:39:20,458 --> 00:39:25,521
"How did I let the fish cut me with one pullhe made?" the old man thought.
417
00:39:25,696 --> 00:39:27,459
"I must be getting very stupid.
418
00:39:27,632 --> 00:39:30,396
I better pay attention to my work.
419
00:39:30,568 --> 00:39:36,063
And then I must eat the bonitoso I will not have a failure of strength.
420
00:39:37,375 --> 00:39:42,779
I wish the boy was here to cut upthe bonito, and I wish I had some salt.
421
00:39:44,282 --> 00:39:47,683
I don't think I can eat an entire one. "
422
00:40:08,372 --> 00:40:11,136
What kind of a hand is that?
423
00:40:20,484 --> 00:40:22,577
Go on. Cramp if you want to.
424
00:40:22,753 --> 00:40:26,211
Make yourself into a claw.
It will do you no good.
425
00:40:37,001 --> 00:40:39,401
I must eat the bonito...
426
00:40:39,570 --> 00:40:42,130
...not to lose my strength.
427
00:40:43,140 --> 00:40:46,974
Do not blame the hand.
It is not the hand's fault.
428
00:40:47,144 --> 00:40:51,547
And you have been a long time
with fish.
429
00:41:23,748 --> 00:41:25,739
How do you feel, hand?
430
00:41:25,916 --> 00:41:27,850
Or is it too early to know?
431
00:41:31,188 --> 00:41:34,123
Maybe it will open with the sun.
432
00:41:36,027 --> 00:41:38,894
If I have to open it, I will open it.
433
00:41:39,063 --> 00:41:42,328
Cost whatever it cost.
434
00:41:42,500 --> 00:41:45,025
"God help me to have the cramp go,"he thought.
435
00:41:45,202 --> 00:41:48,069
"Because I don't know what the fishis going to do.
436
00:41:48,239 --> 00:41:52,733
But he seems calm and following his plan,but what is his plan?
437
00:41:52,910 --> 00:41:55,037
What is mine?
438
00:41:55,212 --> 00:42:00,149
Mine I must improvise to hisbecause of his great size.
439
00:42:01,218 --> 00:42:04,187
If he will jump, " he thought,"I can kill him."
440
00:42:11,162 --> 00:42:16,429
Hand. Come on, hand.
He's coming up. Hand.
441
00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:38,811
He's longer than the skiff.
442
00:42:43,561 --> 00:42:45,392
Oh, he's a great fish.
443
00:42:56,407 --> 00:43:00,104
Thank God they are not as intelligent
as we who kill them.
444
00:43:00,277 --> 00:43:02,108
Although they are more noble...
445
00:43:02,413 --> 00:43:04,278
...and more able.
446
00:43:33,911 --> 00:43:36,277
I wonder why he jumped.
447
00:43:37,548 --> 00:43:43,180
It's almost as though he jumped
just to show me how big he was.
448
00:43:49,260 --> 00:43:52,161
Bad news for you, fish.
449
00:44:04,175 --> 00:44:09,807
It was getting late in the day now, andthe skiff still moved slowly and steadily.
450
00:44:09,980 --> 00:44:11,777
The old man was suffering...
451
00:44:11,949 --> 00:44:15,646
... although he did not admitto suffering at all.
452
00:44:18,789 --> 00:44:20,916
I am not religious...
453
00:44:21,091 --> 00:44:27,326
...but I will say 10 Our Fathers and
10 Hail Marys that I may catch this fish.
454
00:44:27,498 --> 00:44:31,298
I will also make a pilgrimage
to the Virgin of Cobre.
455
00:44:31,469 --> 00:44:33,937
That is a promise.
456
00:44:34,104 --> 00:44:38,063
"Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name."
457
00:44:38,242 --> 00:44:41,678
He commenced to say his prayersmechanically.
458
00:44:41,846 --> 00:44:45,247
Sometimes he would be so tiredthat he could not remember the prayer.
459
00:44:45,416 --> 00:44:48,647
Then he would say them so fast,they would come automatically.
460
00:44:48,819 --> 00:44:52,880
"Hail Marys are easier to saythan Our Fathers, " he thought.
461
00:44:54,058 --> 00:44:57,425
The old man felt very tired, and he knewthat the night would come soon...
462
00:44:57,595 --> 00:44:59,825
... and he tried to think of other things.
463
00:45:00,297 --> 00:45:02,162
He thought of the big leagues.
464
00:45:02,333 --> 00:45:04,927
To him, they were the gran ligas.
465
00:45:05,102 --> 00:45:09,334
And he knew that the Yankees of New Yorkwere playing the Tigers of Detroit.
466
00:45:09,507 --> 00:45:14,308
"This is the second day now that I do notknow the results of the games, " he thought.
467
00:45:16,647 --> 00:45:19,480
Then, to give himself more confidence...
468
00:45:19,650 --> 00:45:23,381
... he remembered the timein the tavern at Casablanca...
469
00:45:24,922 --> 00:45:28,323
... when he played the hand gamewith a Negro from Cienfuegos...
470
00:45:28,492 --> 00:45:31,689
... who was the strongest manon the docks.
471
00:45:32,396 --> 00:45:36,230
He was not an old man then,but he was in his prime.
472
00:45:37,334 --> 00:45:39,768
He and the Negro had goneone day and night...
473
00:45:39,937 --> 00:45:42,701
... with their elbows on a chalked lineon the table.
474
00:46:04,795 --> 00:46:09,255
There was much betting, and the oddschanged back and forth all night...
475
00:46:09,433 --> 00:46:12,129
... and they changed the refereesevery four hours...
476
00:46:12,303 --> 00:46:14,931
... so that the refereecould get some sleep.
477
00:46:22,446 --> 00:46:24,710
They fed the Negro rum.
478
00:46:25,382 --> 00:46:29,409
Once, after the rum,the Negro made his all-out bid.
479
00:46:53,010 --> 00:46:56,878
But the old man raised his handup to dead even again.
480
00:46:57,514 --> 00:47:01,644
He was sure that he had the Negro,who was a fine man and a great athlete...
481
00:47:01,819 --> 00:47:03,582
... beaten.
482
00:47:20,938 --> 00:47:24,169
At daylight, when bettors were asking himto call it a draw...
483
00:47:24,341 --> 00:47:27,174
... because they had to go to workon the docks...
484
00:47:28,212 --> 00:47:31,943
... the old man unleashedhis greatest effort.
485
00:47:32,950 --> 00:47:36,351
He knew that he had brokenthe confidence of the Negro...
486
00:47:36,520 --> 00:47:40,752
... and now he finished the boutbefore anyone had to go to work.
487
00:47:50,067 --> 00:47:54,367
For a long time after that,everyone had called him "the champion."
488
00:48:08,185 --> 00:48:10,710
How do you feel, fish?
489
00:48:10,888 --> 00:48:12,753
I feel fine.
490
00:48:12,923 --> 00:48:14,914
My left hand is better.
491
00:48:15,092 --> 00:48:17,390
Pull the boat, fish.
492
00:48:24,301 --> 00:48:28,533
Just before it was dark, as they passedthe great island of sargasso weed...
493
00:48:28,706 --> 00:48:32,142
... that heaved and swungas though the ocean were making love...
494
00:48:32,309 --> 00:48:34,800
... with something undera yellow blanket...
495
00:48:34,978 --> 00:48:37,845
... his small line had been takenby a dolphin...
496
00:48:38,015 --> 00:48:40,575
... and he had brought it into the skiff.
497
00:48:48,158 --> 00:48:51,389
What an excellent fish dolphin is...
498
00:48:51,562 --> 00:48:53,587
...to eat cooked...
499
00:48:54,932 --> 00:48:58,265
...and what a miserable fish raw.
500
00:49:13,951 --> 00:49:19,150
"I had better keep the fish quiet nowand not disturb him too much at sunset.
501
00:49:19,323 --> 00:49:23,453
The setting of the sunis a difficult time for all fish. "
502
00:49:27,965 --> 00:49:33,335
It was darker now, as it becomes darkquickly after the sun sets in September.
503
00:49:33,504 --> 00:49:35,472
The first stars were out.
504
00:49:35,639 --> 00:49:38,870
He did not know the name of Rigel,but he saw it...
505
00:49:39,443 --> 00:49:44,745
... and knew soon they would be out,and he would have all his distant friends.
506
00:49:46,216 --> 00:49:49,151
"The fish is my friend too," he thought.
507
00:49:49,319 --> 00:49:53,312
Never have I seen or heard
of such a fish.
508
00:49:55,692 --> 00:49:57,785
But I must kill him.
509
00:50:01,365 --> 00:50:04,801
I'm glad I do not have to kill the stars.
510
00:50:07,404 --> 00:50:12,137
Imagine how it would be if, every day,
a man had to try to kill the moon.
511
00:50:15,312 --> 00:50:17,746
The moon runs away.
512
00:50:17,915 --> 00:50:23,080
But think what it would be if, every day,
he had to try to kill the sun.
513
00:50:27,624 --> 00:50:29,785
We're born lucky.
514
00:50:43,106 --> 00:50:48,510
"It was half a day and a night, and nowanother day, and you have not slept.
515
00:50:50,247 --> 00:50:54,479
If you do not sleep,you might become unclear in the head.
516
00:51:00,824 --> 00:51:03,554
Rest now, old man.
517
00:51:05,062 --> 00:51:07,826
Let him do the work.
518
00:51:10,100 --> 00:51:12,625
Until it is time...
519
00:51:12,803 --> 00:51:15,237
... for your next journey. "
520
00:51:15,772 --> 00:51:19,230
He lay forward, cramping himselfagainst the line with his body...
521
00:51:19,409 --> 00:51:23,038
... putting all his weight on his left hand,and he was asleep.
522
00:51:23,213 --> 00:51:27,912
He did not dream of the lions,but instead, of a vast school of porpoises...
523
00:51:28,085 --> 00:51:32,249
... that stretched for eight or 10 miles,and it was in the time of their mating.
524
00:51:32,723 --> 00:51:34,953
And they would leap high into the air...
525
00:51:35,125 --> 00:51:39,027
... and return in the same hole theymade in the water when they leaped.
526
00:51:39,196 --> 00:51:41,721
Then he dreamed he was in the village,on his bed.
527
00:51:41,899 --> 00:51:44,231
And there was a norther,and he was very cold.
528
00:51:44,401 --> 00:51:48,462
And his arm was asleep because his headhad rested on it instead of a pillow.
529
00:51:48,639 --> 00:51:51,904
After that, he began to dream ofthe long yellow beach...
530
00:51:52,075 --> 00:51:54,407
... and he saw the first of the lions.
531
00:51:54,578 --> 00:51:58,275
And he waited to see if there would bemore lions, and he was happy.
532
00:52:00,484 --> 00:52:04,215
Then he dreamed of the whalesthat passed along this coast in the fall.
533
00:52:04,388 --> 00:52:09,257
And of their mating too, and of theirfriendliness with each other, and their play.
534
00:52:28,011 --> 00:52:31,742
The moon had been up for a long time,but he slept on.
535
00:52:31,915 --> 00:52:36,909
And the fish pulled on steadily,and the boat moved into a tunnel of clouds.
536
00:52:37,087 --> 00:52:42,548
He woke with a jerk of his fist coming up,and the line burning out through his hand.
537
00:53:02,379 --> 00:53:04,677
This is what we waited for.
538
00:53:05,382 --> 00:53:07,714
Now let us take it.
539
00:53:08,218 --> 00:53:11,984
Make him pay for the line.
Make him pay for it.
540
00:54:39,810 --> 00:54:43,712
"I will show him what a man can doand what a man endures, " he thought.
541
00:54:53,990 --> 00:54:56,390
The thousand times he had proved itmeant nothing.
542
00:54:56,560 --> 00:54:58,551
Now he was proving it again.
543
00:54:58,728 --> 00:55:00,889
Each time was a new time...
544
00:55:01,064 --> 00:55:04,397
... and he never thought about the pastwhen he was doing it.
545
00:55:05,602 --> 00:55:09,402
"If the boy were here, he could wetthe coils of the line, " he thought.
546
00:55:09,573 --> 00:55:13,532
"Yes, if the boy were here,if the boy were here. "
547
00:55:56,553 --> 00:55:59,784
"Now he has jumped and filledthe sacs along his back with air.
548
00:55:59,956 --> 00:56:02,550
Now he cannot go down deep to die.
549
00:56:02,726 --> 00:56:07,095
He will start circling soon,then I must start working on him. "
550
00:56:11,902 --> 00:56:14,837
Well, you didn't do so badly...
551
00:56:15,705 --> 00:56:18,196
...for something that is worthless.
552
00:56:22,112 --> 00:56:24,603
Now I have done my best.
553
00:56:26,149 --> 00:56:28,617
He will begin to circle soon.
554
00:56:29,686 --> 00:56:31,847
Let the fight come.
555
00:56:40,730 --> 00:56:45,929
The sun was rising for the third timesince he had put out to sea.
556
00:56:46,102 --> 00:56:50,300
The fish was circling slowly,and the old man was wet with sweat...
557
00:56:50,473 --> 00:56:53,670
... and tired deep into his bones.
558
00:57:01,384 --> 00:57:04,581
I could not fail myself now...
559
00:57:04,754 --> 00:57:08,121
...and die on a fish like this.
560
00:57:08,725 --> 00:57:13,560
Now that I have him coming so beautifully,
God help me to endure.
561
00:57:14,097 --> 00:57:19,160
I will say 100 Our Fathers
and 100 Hail Marys.
562
00:57:20,737 --> 00:57:23,365
But I cannot say them now.
563
00:57:25,408 --> 00:57:28,343
Please consider them said.
564
00:57:30,280 --> 00:57:32,180
I will say them later.
565
00:57:35,285 --> 00:57:38,652
For an hour, he had been seeing spotsbefore his eyes.
566
00:57:38,822 --> 00:57:41,848
Twice he had felt faint and dizzy...
567
00:57:42,025 --> 00:57:43,925
... and that had worried him.
568
00:57:44,561 --> 00:57:47,496
Then suddenly, he saw a dark shadow...
569
00:57:47,664 --> 00:57:51,760
... that took so long to pass the boatthat he couldn't believe its length.
570
00:57:54,471 --> 00:57:56,132
He can't be that big.
571
00:58:02,312 --> 00:58:03,973
But he was that big.
572
00:58:09,586 --> 00:58:11,247
He felt faint again.
573
00:58:11,421 --> 00:58:13,514
"I moved him," he thought.
574
00:58:13,690 --> 00:58:16,488
"Maybe this time I can get him over."
575
00:58:16,660 --> 00:58:18,423
Pull, hands.
576
00:58:18,595 --> 00:58:20,358
Hold on, legs.
577
00:58:35,312 --> 00:58:38,839
"I must get him alongside this time,"the old man thought.
578
00:58:40,850 --> 00:58:43,318
Next time I'll pull him over.
579
00:58:49,459 --> 00:58:51,086
He tried it once more.
580
00:58:51,261 --> 00:58:54,594
And he felt himself goingwhen he turned the fish.
581
00:58:54,764 --> 00:58:59,929
"I will try it again," the old man promised,and he could only see well in flashes.
582
00:59:08,411 --> 00:59:12,347
Fish, you're going to die anyway.
Do you have to kill me too?
583
00:59:20,056 --> 00:59:25,494
He took all his pain and what was leftof his strength and his long-gone pride...
584
00:59:25,662 --> 00:59:28,825
... and he put it against the fish's agony.
585
00:59:34,537 --> 00:59:38,598
"I must get him close, close,"he thought.
586
00:59:38,775 --> 00:59:42,541
"I mustn't try for the head,I must get the heart. "
587
01:00:16,746 --> 01:00:20,079
Now I have killed this fish
who was my brother.
588
01:00:21,017 --> 01:00:23,713
Now I must do the slave work.
589
01:00:25,655 --> 01:00:27,885
Get to work, old man.
590
01:00:36,499 --> 01:00:40,196
The old man did not need a compassto tell him where southwest was.
591
01:00:40,370 --> 01:00:43,498
He only needed the feel of the trade windand drawing of the sail.
592
01:00:43,673 --> 01:00:45,140
He could see the fish.
593
01:00:45,308 --> 01:00:48,800
And he had only to look at his handsand feel his back against the stern...
594
01:00:48,978 --> 01:00:51,913
... to know this had truly happenedand was not a dream.
595
01:00:52,916 --> 01:00:55,077
"The hands cure quickly," he thought.
596
01:00:55,251 --> 01:00:59,347
"I've bled them clean.The salt water will heal them.
597
01:00:59,522 --> 01:01:02,980
The dark water of the gulfis the greatest healer that there is. "
598
01:01:04,994 --> 01:01:08,293
Then his head started to become unclear,and he asked himself:
599
01:01:08,465 --> 01:01:11,992
"Is he bringing me in,or am I bringing him in?"
600
01:01:13,403 --> 01:01:16,804
They were sailing together,lashed side by side.
601
01:01:16,973 --> 01:01:21,967
And the old man thought,"Let me bring him in, if it pleases him.
602
01:01:22,812 --> 01:01:27,681
I am only better than him through trickery,and he meant me no harm. "
603
01:01:27,851 --> 01:01:29,284
They sailed well.
604
01:01:29,452 --> 01:01:32,944
The old man soaked his hands in the waterand tried to keep his head clear.
605
01:01:33,122 --> 01:01:37,081
He looked at the fish constantlyto make sure it was true.
606
01:01:37,927 --> 01:01:41,363
It was an hourbefore the first shark hit him.
607
01:01:45,568 --> 01:01:47,866
He was a very big mako shark...
608
01:01:48,037 --> 01:01:51,803
... built to swim as fastas the fastest fish of the sea.
609
01:01:56,980 --> 01:02:00,074
Now he speeded upas he smelled the fresher scent...
610
01:02:00,250 --> 01:02:03,310
... and his blue dorsal fin cut the water.
611
01:02:04,387 --> 01:02:08,153
When the old man saw him coming,he knew this shark had no fear at all...
612
01:02:08,324 --> 01:02:11,418
... and would do exactly what he pleased.
613
01:02:21,871 --> 01:02:23,668
It's too good to be true.
614
01:02:23,840 --> 01:02:25,933
Might just as well have been a dream.
615
01:02:33,283 --> 01:02:34,545
Mako.
616
01:03:21,464 --> 01:03:26,128
Now my fish bleeds again,
and there will be others.
617
01:03:28,271 --> 01:03:30,671
It was too good to be true.
618
01:03:37,113 --> 01:03:39,604
The old man did not lookat the fish anymore...
619
01:03:39,782 --> 01:03:41,716
... since it had been mutilated.
620
01:03:42,185 --> 01:03:47,817
When the fish had been hit,it was as if he himself had been hit.
621
01:03:47,991 --> 01:03:50,892
"But I killed the shark that hit my fish,"he thought.
622
01:03:51,060 --> 01:03:53,927
"He was the biggest dentuso
I have ever seen.
623
01:03:54,097 --> 01:03:56,395
It was too good to last. "
624
01:03:56,566 --> 01:03:59,433
He knew that each of the jerking bumpsof the shark...
625
01:03:59,602 --> 01:04:01,536
... had been meat torn away...
626
01:04:01,704 --> 01:04:05,037
... and that the fish now madea trail of blood for all sharks...
627
01:04:05,208 --> 01:04:07,870
... as wide as a highway through the sea.
628
01:04:12,148 --> 01:04:14,946
He knew quite well the patternof what could happen...
629
01:04:15,118 --> 01:04:17,780
... when he reached the inner partof the current...
630
01:04:17,954 --> 01:04:20,718
... but there was nothing to be done now.
631
01:04:20,890 --> 01:04:23,154
"Yes, there is," he thought.
632
01:04:23,326 --> 01:04:27,319
"I can lash my knifeto the butt of one of the oars. "
633
01:04:28,398 --> 01:04:31,333
"I should've brought a stone for the knife,"he thought.
634
01:04:31,501 --> 01:04:35,437
"You should've brought many things,but did not. Now is no time to think...
635
01:04:35,605 --> 01:04:39,200
... of what you do not have. Think whatyou can do with what you have. "
636
01:04:39,375 --> 01:04:42,833
"You give me good counsel," he thought."I'm tired of it."
637
01:05:04,300 --> 01:05:07,861
I am still an old man,
but I will not be unarmed.
638
01:05:57,053 --> 01:05:58,816
Come on, galanos!
639
01:06:01,023 --> 01:06:03,457
Come on. Come on, galanos!
640
01:06:11,100 --> 01:06:12,761
Come on. Come on.
641
01:08:49,592 --> 01:08:52,186
I went out too far, fish.
642
01:08:52,461 --> 01:08:55,225
No good for you, nor for me.
643
01:08:55,831 --> 01:08:58,163
I'm sorry, fish.
644
01:09:25,594 --> 01:09:28,688
I still have almost half of him left.
645
01:09:28,931 --> 01:09:32,867
Maybe I will have the luck to bring
that much of him in.
646
01:09:33,035 --> 01:09:35,162
I should have some luck.
647
01:09:35,338 --> 01:09:37,203
No.
648
01:09:37,373 --> 01:09:41,810
No, you violated your luck
when you went too far out.
649
01:09:45,681 --> 01:09:47,581
Don't be silly.
650
01:09:49,018 --> 01:09:51,578
Stay awake and steer.
651
01:09:52,655 --> 01:09:55,556
You still may have some luck.
652
01:10:00,162 --> 01:10:02,596
I would like to buy some...
653
01:10:02,865 --> 01:10:05,527
...if there is a place where they sell it.
654
01:10:07,203 --> 01:10:09,694
What would I buy it with?
655
01:10:09,939 --> 01:10:12,601
A lost harpoon? A broken knife?
656
01:10:12,775 --> 01:10:14,743
Two bad hands?
657
01:10:14,910 --> 01:10:16,878
You might.
658
01:10:18,647 --> 01:10:21,480
You tried to buy it with 84 days...
659
01:10:22,084 --> 01:10:23,642
...at sea.
660
01:10:23,819 --> 01:10:26,811
They almost sold it to you too.
661
01:10:29,358 --> 01:10:32,327
Must not think such nonsense.
662
01:10:34,764 --> 01:10:39,599
Luck is a thing that comes in many forms.
663
01:10:39,902 --> 01:10:42,370
Who can recognize her?
664
01:10:46,942 --> 01:10:50,173
I wish I could see the lights of Havana.
665
01:10:51,814 --> 01:10:54,840
I wish for too many things.
666
01:10:57,620 --> 01:11:00,748
But that is what I wish now.
667
01:11:09,732 --> 01:11:13,759
He saw the reflected glare of the lightof the city at around 10:00 at night.
668
01:11:13,936 --> 01:11:15,801
He was stiff and sore now...
669
01:11:15,971 --> 01:11:20,032
... and his wounds and all ofthe strained parts of his body hurt.
670
01:11:21,377 --> 01:11:26,178
He could not talk to the fish anymore,because the fish had been ruined too badly.
671
01:11:27,049 --> 01:11:29,779
Then something came into his head.
672
01:11:31,821 --> 01:11:33,584
Half fish.
673
01:11:33,923 --> 01:11:35,720
Fish that you were.
674
01:11:38,127 --> 01:11:41,563
I am sorry I went out too far.
675
01:11:43,032 --> 01:11:45,398
Ruined us both.
676
01:11:47,903 --> 01:11:50,929
But we have killed many sharks,
you and I...
677
01:11:51,774 --> 01:11:54,368
...and ruined many more.
678
01:11:56,912 --> 01:11:59,244
How many have you ever killed, old fish?
679
01:12:01,150 --> 01:12:04,881
You do not have that spear for nothing.
680
01:12:09,325 --> 01:12:13,022
"What will you do now if they comein the night?" he thought.
681
01:12:14,163 --> 01:12:18,463
What will I do if they come in the night?
682
01:12:20,302 --> 01:12:22,361
I'll fight them.
683
01:12:22,538 --> 01:12:25,405
I'll fight them until I die.
684
01:12:25,574 --> 01:12:29,271
"Oh, but I hope I do nothave to fight again, " he thought.
685
01:12:29,445 --> 01:12:33,006
"I hope so much I do nothave to fight again. "
686
01:12:45,828 --> 01:12:49,286
But he fought again, and this timehe knew the fight was useless.
687
01:12:55,204 --> 01:12:56,603
Come on.
688
01:12:57,273 --> 01:12:58,638
Come on!
689
01:13:03,078 --> 01:13:04,443
Come on.
690
01:13:22,398 --> 01:13:24,195
Come on, galanos!
691
01:13:25,768 --> 01:13:28,328
Come on, galanos! Come on.
692
01:13:32,208 --> 01:13:35,336
Come on, galanos! Come on!
693
01:13:56,832 --> 01:14:01,633
He knew he was beaten now,finally and without remedy.
694
01:14:04,273 --> 01:14:06,036
I'm sorry, fish.
695
01:14:50,953 --> 01:14:53,387
He could feel he was insidethe current now...
696
01:14:53,555 --> 01:14:56,956
... and he could see the lightsof the beach colonies along the shore.
697
01:14:57,126 --> 01:15:00,459
He knew where he was now,and it was nothing to get home.
698
01:15:00,629 --> 01:15:03,029
"The wind is our friend anyway,"he thought.
699
01:15:03,198 --> 01:15:05,598
Then he added, "Sometimes."
700
01:15:05,768 --> 01:15:10,796
"And the great sea with our friendsand our enemies and bed.
701
01:15:10,973 --> 01:15:14,568
Bed is my friend, just bed.
702
01:15:14,877 --> 01:15:16,674
Bed will be a great thing. "
703
01:15:18,981 --> 01:15:21,506
It is easy when you are beaten.
704
01:15:23,485 --> 01:15:25,350
What beat you?
705
01:15:26,522 --> 01:15:30,117
Nothing. I just went out too far.
706
01:15:36,332 --> 01:15:39,358
Man is not made for defeat.
707
01:15:41,370 --> 01:15:45,534
Man can be destroyed,
but not defeated.
708
01:15:56,518 --> 01:15:58,179
It was quiet in the harbor.
709
01:15:58,354 --> 01:16:01,585
And he sailed up onto the little patchof shingle below the rocks.
710
01:16:01,757 --> 01:16:04,055
There was no one to help him.
711
01:16:04,326 --> 01:16:07,727
He unstepped the mast,furled the sail...
712
01:16:08,197 --> 01:16:10,529
... shouldered the mast,and started to climb.
713
01:16:10,699 --> 01:16:16,001
It was then he knewthe depth of his tiredness.
714
01:17:37,186 --> 01:17:41,247
He had to sit down five timesbefore he reached the shack.
715
01:17:49,932 --> 01:17:51,661
In the morning,it was blowing so hard...
716
01:17:51,834 --> 01:17:53,597
... that the boatswould not be going out.
717
01:17:53,769 --> 01:17:57,830
And the boy had slept late and thenhad come to the old man's shack...
718
01:17:58,006 --> 01:18:01,373
... as he had come each morningwhile the old man was gone.
719
01:18:05,447 --> 01:18:09,679
The old man was asleep,and the boy saw that he was breathing.
720
01:18:16,291 --> 01:18:20,057
And then he saw the old man's hands,and he started to cry.
721
01:18:48,190 --> 01:18:52,957
He went out to bring some coffee, andall the way down the road, he was crying.
722
01:19:04,239 --> 01:19:08,903
Many fishermen were around the skiff,looking at what was beside it.
723
01:19:09,077 --> 01:19:12,911
And one was in the water, his trousersrolled up, measuring the skeleton...
724
01:19:13,081 --> 01:19:15,641
... preparing to take offthe head and the bill.
725
01:19:15,817 --> 01:19:17,751
The boy did not go down.
726
01:19:17,920 --> 01:19:19,888
He had been there before.
727
01:19:24,493 --> 01:19:25,858
Martin.
728
01:19:26,028 --> 01:19:28,792
A can of coffee with plenty of milk
and sugar in it.
729
01:19:28,964 --> 01:19:30,761
What a fish that was.
730
01:19:30,933 --> 01:19:33,663
There has never been such a fish.
731
01:19:33,835 --> 01:19:36,269
Those were two fine fish
you took yesterday.
732
01:19:36,438 --> 01:19:38,963
Never mind about my fish.
733
01:19:39,508 --> 01:19:41,066
Does he want a drink of any kind?
734
01:19:41,243 --> 01:19:44,007
No. If he does, I'll be back.
735
01:19:44,346 --> 01:19:46,541
You tell him how sorry I am.
736
01:19:46,715 --> 01:19:48,580
Thanks.
737
01:19:49,851 --> 01:19:51,216
I'll get the coffee.
738
01:21:10,532 --> 01:21:13,592
They beat me, Manolin.
They truly beat me.
739
01:21:14,236 --> 01:21:17,603
He didn't beat you, not the fish.
740
01:21:18,907 --> 01:21:21,034
Did you suffer much?
741
01:21:23,545 --> 01:21:26,036
Now we'll fish together again.
742
01:21:26,214 --> 01:21:28,307
No, no.
743
01:21:28,850 --> 01:21:30,875
I am not lucky anymore.
744
01:21:31,053 --> 01:21:34,420
The hell with luck.
I'll bring the luck with me.
745
01:21:36,458 --> 01:21:40,258
- What will your father say?
- I don't care what he says.
746
01:21:43,732 --> 01:21:45,529
We'll...
747
01:21:45,901 --> 01:21:50,668
We will have to get a killing lance
and keep it onboard at all times.
748
01:21:50,872 --> 01:21:52,931
It must be very sharp...
749
01:21:53,108 --> 01:21:57,704
...and not tempered so it will break,
like my knife broke.
750
01:21:57,879 --> 01:21:59,710
I'll get another knife.
751
01:21:59,881 --> 01:22:02,111
How many days of heavy wind have we?
752
01:22:03,852 --> 01:22:07,049
Oh, maybe three. Maybe more.
753
01:22:07,222 --> 01:22:09,019
I'll have everything in order.
754
01:22:09,658 --> 01:22:12,889
You get your hands well, old man.
755
01:22:15,297 --> 01:22:18,562
They will be all right in a couple of days.
756
01:22:19,101 --> 01:22:21,092
I know how to care for them.
757
01:22:21,937 --> 01:22:24,770
During the night, I spat up
something strange.
758
01:22:24,940 --> 01:22:28,706
I felt like something
in my chest was broken.
759
01:22:29,077 --> 01:22:30,977
Get that well too.
760
01:22:31,146 --> 01:22:33,876
Drink your coffee. I'll get you
something to eat.
761
01:22:34,249 --> 01:22:39,243
And... And bring me the papers
from the time I was away.
762
01:22:39,554 --> 01:22:41,078
I will.
763
01:23:20,061 --> 01:23:24,157
That afternoon there was a partyof tourists from Havana at a caf�.
764
01:23:24,332 --> 01:23:26,994
One of them looked down,and among the empty beer cans...
765
01:23:27,169 --> 01:23:31,003
... and dead barracuda, she saw the longbackbone of the great fish...
766
01:23:31,173 --> 01:23:35,269
... that was now just garbagewaiting to go out with the tide.
767
01:23:37,746 --> 01:23:40,010
"What's that?" she asked the waiter.
768
01:23:40,382 --> 01:23:42,407
"Tibur�n," the waiter said. "A shark."
769
01:23:42,584 --> 01:23:46,042
He was trying to explainwhat had happened to the marlin.
770
01:23:46,621 --> 01:23:51,752
"I didn't know sharks had such handsome,beautifully formed tails, " the woman said.
771
01:23:51,927 --> 01:23:55,090
"I didn't either,"her male companion answered.
772
01:24:00,669 --> 01:24:04,161
Up the road in his shack,the old man was sleeping again.
773
01:24:04,639 --> 01:24:09,542
He was still sleeping on his face, andthe boy was sitting by him, watching him.
774
01:24:10,078 --> 01:24:13,241
The old man was dreaming about the lions.
71687
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