The text at the end is a rendition of The Old Man and the Sea. Best quote: "...life is a tragic opera and just when you think you've finally found
something good and true, sharks come along and rip it all to fucking
shreds while dry humping your dignity with their crazy weird shark
dicks."
Now for your enjoyment, have a strange read:
The Old Man and the Sea is the story of a fight between an elderly,
accomplished fisherman, Santiago, and a really big fish. Like... HUGE.
The story opens with Santiago suffering eighty-four days without
catching a fish because he's the unluckiest son of a bitch on planet
earth. Honestly, if you were in a boat for eighty-four days, it'd be
hard to NOT catch a fish... even by accident. Santiago was so unlucky
that his apprentice, Manolin, was forbidden by his Ma and Pa to fish
with him. But as the Fresh Prince used to say, Parents Just Don't
Understand.' So the boy visits Santiago's shack anyway. Ignoring the
inherent risks of unsupervised playtime with an elderly man who talks to
himself. Manolin helps out, moving Santiago's fishing gear, making food
and talking about baseball. Especially Joe DiMaggio; who used to bump
fuzzies with Marilyn Monroe. The next day, Santiago tells Manolin that
he's going way out into the Gulf Stream. WAY OUT north of Cuba. Lady
luck is returning! On the eighty-fifth day of his crappy luck, Santiago
drops his lines, and by noon, gets a bite from what feels like a big ass
fish. He's sure it's a winner. He fights and fights and fights but
can't pull the monster in. Santiago's leaky old boat is pulled by the
fish for two days and nights and he holds on for dear life. Even though
he's bloody and beat, Santiago begins to appreciate this might
adversary. He starts calling him "brother" or maybe even "bro." It's
sort of a love story if you really think about it. And like most
romantic comedies, the reader pictures a delightful outfit changing
montage, followed by the inevitable interspecies wedding. But on the
third day, Santiago is freakin' EXHAUSTED, and decides he just wants the
fish to do what he says and not always swim wherever he wants. So he
stabs it. With a fucking harpoon. It's a mess. Super gross. Blood
everywhere. Because, like many men his age, Santiago has difficulty
expressing his emotions and fears with words instead giving in to base
desires and imposing his gigantically terrible positions on any given
subject through unblinking violence. Typical. Anyway, he straps the
marlin to the side of his skiff and hits the road home, ready to act
like a total show off to everyone and probably gouge people on the
price. But guess what? Pretty soon sharks begin to attack the bleeding
marlin's carcass, because as we all know, life is a tragic opera and
just when you think you've finally found something good and true, sharks
come along and rip it all to fucking shreds while dry humping your
dignity with their crazy weird shark dicks. Sure, Santiago tries killing
a few of them, but drops his harpoon because his hands are just as old
as he is. By nighttime, the sharks have pretty much eaten the entire
marlin. Only a bleach white skeleton remains, silently mocking him in
the murky darkness. Santiago realizes he's still unlucky. REALLY
unlucky. (Duh!) He calls the sharks "dream killers". Which isn't really
all that fair. I mean, the sharks were just doing their job and the
marlin... Jesus, don't even get me started on the marlin! It was just
hanging out one day, minding its own business, maybe thinking about ways
it could be a better provider for its family and WHAM! Harpoon in the
brain. Who's the "dream killer" now, fuckface? The hypocrisy is pretty
much boundless at this point. Eventually Santiago makes it ashore.
Leaving the bones of the marlin and the boat, he hobbles to his shack.
He makes it home and crashes, like I said, he's super tired. The next
morning a group of fishermen gather around Santiago's boat. One measures
the skeleton and, holy shit shingles! It's over 18 feet! The head of
the fish is given to Pedrico (strange that this is the first mention of
him) and the other fishermen ask Manolin to send their glad tidings to
the old man. Manolin brings Santiago newspapers and coffee when he wakes
and they decide to fish together again. Many years later, there's a Red
Lobster Restaurant in nearly every city in America, offering a casual
dining experience and convenient parking.
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