“Ay,' he said aloud. There is no translation for this word and perhaps it is just a noise such as a man might make, involuntarily, feeling the nail go through his hands and into the wood.”

— Ernest Hemingway , book The Old Man and the Sea

The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

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American author and journalist 1899–1961

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