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Originally Posted by Bookpossum
(And I just have to ask: if only the skeleton was left, how come it stayed attached to the boat? Surely it would have fallen through the ropes. But that's just nitpicking on my part.)
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I was surprised by that too, then I found pictures of that essentially happening, not picked clean but nearly 1/2 of the fish was gone and just the front half, spine and tail was remaining. He did describe going around the fish several times to tie it to the boat so some of the lines must have been avoided by the shark.
I went and looked for the picture again and on the Wikipedia page for
The Old Man and the Sea there is an image of Hemingway with a fish eaten that way.
LINK GOES DIRECTLY TO IMAGE OF HALF EATEN FISH. You've been warned.
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