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Originally Posted by issybird
The line about loving what you kill seems to me to be a pretty common literary trope; I'd guess it's how people justified the indefensible. I'm reminded of a quote by Isak Dinesen that I couldn't track down, something along the lines of, "To see a lion and not want to kill it...." Of course that was entirely indefensible, unlike a peasant fisherman who fishes to live.
And in one of those synchronicities, it was Dinesen who Hemingway said should have won the Nobel instead of him.
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And in a bit of off-topic, I sincerely hope we are able to select a bit of Isak Dinesen to read for the Club at some point.