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NikolaiFyodorov · 415 days ago · link · · parent · post: Don't Meet Your Heroes, Especially the Dead Ones
A beautiful piece of writing. That said, I found the exuberance about killing elephants and giants marlins deeply saddening. We've moved on a bit in the past 90 years. But then, perhaps it took the extermination (or local extermination) of these species for us to learn to move on.
I agree the fishsplaining is not very persuasive. Shooting an Elephant is similarly disturbing but at least the narrator feels bad about it.If the fish is hooked in the bony part of the mouth I am sure the hook hurts him no more than the harness hurts the angler.