Although I have never pretended to be a great fisherman, it was always important to me that I was a fisherman and looked like one, especially when fi… - Norman Maclean

After I caught these two, I quit. They made ten, and the last three were the finest fish I ever caught. They weren't the biggest or most spectacular fish I ever caught, but they were three fish I caught because my brother waded across the river to give me the fly that would catch them and because they were the last fish I ever caught fishing with him.

All there is to thinking, he said, is seeing something noticeable which makes you see something you weren't noticing which makes you see something that isn't even visible.

For all of us, though, it is much easier to read the waters of tragedy. (64)