Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm (misspelled). The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond what you know.
-Ernest Hemingway, 1952
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good one.
There was a long circulating tale at my high school that a student was once studying Robert Frost in his English class and when he went home for the holidays, conveyed what he had learned to an old family friend: Robert Frost. Not surprisingly, Frost informed the young lad that his teacher was supremely misguided.
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