He always thought of the sea as la mar which is what people call her in
Spanish when they love her. Sometimes those who love her say bad things
of her but they are always said as though she were a woman. Some of the
younger fishermen, those who used buoys as floats for their lines and
had motorboats, bought when the shark livers had brought much money,
spoke of her as el mar which is masculine. They spoke of her as a
contestant or a place or even an enemy. But the old man always thought
of her as feminine and as something that gave or withheld great favors,
and if she did wild or wicked things it was because she could not help
them. The moon affects her as it does a woman, he thought.
去书内
-
张爽爽爽