There was no cast net and the boy remembered when they had sold it. But they went through this fiction every day. There was no pot of yellow rice and fish and the boy knew this too. - P16
"I think perhaps I can too. But I try not to borrow. First you borrow. Then you beg." - P17
"When I was your age I was before the mast on a square rigged ship that ran to Africa and I have seen lions on the beaches in the evening."
"I know. You told me." - P21
"Good night then. I will wake you in the morning."
"You‘re my alarm clock," the boy said.
"Age is my alarm clock," the old man said. - P22
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