Interesting. I'd never thought of The Old Man and the Sea in that way, but I can see your point. Tough-minded perseverance. I occasionally look through the bus

Interesting. I'd never thought of The Old Man and the Sea in that way, but I can see your point. Tough-minded perseverance. I occasionally look through the business books section of a bookshop while waiting for my train home from work, and I'm always struck by the intellectual emptiness and embarrassing obsession with the latest fad of most of these books. I wonder how this sector of the book market got like this?