"No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in.... I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them good and true enough they would mean many things."
The Old Man and the Sea (ed. 1952)
~Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961)
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