20210105 - "The Old Man and the Sea"

 

HaikuPrajna

Harpoon to expire / the forces of nature, and / take home what you can.

("The Old Man and the Sea")

Hello goodreaders,

Details for the Next Big Novel Idea will be shared once we are done reviewing the last of 2020's Goodreads. After I fill you in on the latest of my WIPs, then we can go back to focusing on the "Spear-thrower" Collection (which I did remember to edit over the holidays). And all the while, we are aiming to release the "SM-SARA" Collection at the end of the month. Also might have something new in the works for regular Patron-exclusive content. Very exciting times ahead.

Today's #MyYearInBooks is "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway. His fish story is an incredible conflict between the abilities of humanity and nature; what impressed on me most was his descriptions and symbolism of nature through the sea, the simple-minded fish and the toils of a human body, beside Santiago's internal conquering of the elements set against him, such as with his acceptance of "bad" luck for the sake of being lucky. The outer conflict of an old man with the sea masks an inner thought-contest between the laws of nature and every conscious-minded human being.

Previews of the upcoming "SM-SARA" HaikuPrajna Collection can be found here:  https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/sm-sara.html

While I pitch my first novel, "Perennial City", the full first chapter along with rough-chapter previews can be found here: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/perennial-city.html

Poetry on, and the first draft of "Spear-thrower" can be read here: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/spear-thrower.html

My Goodreads' 2020 #MyYearInBooks can be seen here: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/goodreads-myyearinbooks.html

Thank you for reading.

Until next time,

Allen W. McLean

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