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Anyone else struggle with this? It was so laded with so many allusions to psychoanalytic and philosophical concept that it was hard to take everything at face value.
Was the marlin/sea supposed to be the Freudian mother type deal or was it about overcoming the ego entirely which happens in the end. The earliest stages (oral,anal) were apparent in the beginning of the book with the boy was a given but it got a bit complex later on.
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you seem to think this is funny bait
it's really not
don't quit your day job
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>>7702982
what makes you think that?
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the marlin is clearly phallic symbol
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>>7702986
cause im tired and depressed and i just want to make terse negative comments on /lit/ to unwind
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The biggest thing I took away from this story is that the old man would have easily gotten the fish back in one piece if Manolin had went with him.
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>>7703035
or if he brought a pistol
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>>7703055
Or even just a fishing spear, or a proper boat.
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>>7703108
>salt water
Could have just brought a damn bowl and prepared enough beforehand by letting it evaporate in the sun; it's not like he didn't have the time.
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