Yeah, I guess you could distill The Old Man and the Sea down to ten pages but at least Hemingway took the man’s way out.
Actually, I shouldn’t joke about suicide because the thought of people doing it depresses me. To think people thought jumping from the top of the WTC was the best choice is disturbing even though I might have joined them. Sorry for the buzzkill.
Hemingway also liked cats, a virtue indeed although he might have been a hoarder but his poly-dactyl kittehs are still around his place.