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| jason -- jasonwashere | member since 12/2002
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Want: | to move to Boston, and find roomates living right by Fenway Park |
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| Home: | Honolulu, HI USA |
| Company: | USMC |
| From: | Taipei,Irvine,Houston,etc., |
| Industry Category: | Legal | | Universities: | University of Illinois Urbana/Champaign GW Law / Elliott School of Int'l Affairs |
| Industries: | legal, government, military, | | Interests: | surfing & snowboarding, mountains & oceans, sushi & sashimi, single malt scotch whiskey, yoga, boxing, sumi-e, grand pianos & baby grands, diplomacy, |
I believe it was in the introduction to Breakfast of Champions that Kurt Vonnegut summed up his interpretation of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea. In The Old Man and the Sea, the old man goes out to sea (no surprise here), and, after eight-four days of futility, he comes across and catches a big fish (an eighteen-foot marlin). But the fish being so big, the old man can't haul it into the boat so, instead, he lashes it to the boat and starts heading back to land. Unfortunately, the blood trail of the big fish attracts numerous sharks. By the time the old man reaches land, there is nothing left of the big fish but the bones. The lesson, says Vonnegut, and what the old man should have done upon making his catch, is this: fillet the fish, throw the rest away.
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