Timequake

TimequakeErnest Hemingway in 1952 published in Life magazine a long short story called "The Old Man and the Sea." It was about a Cuban Fisherman who hadn't caught anything for 84 days. The Cuban hooked an enormous marlin. He killed it and lashed it alongside his little boat. Before he could get it to shore, though, sharks bit off all the meat on the skeleton.I was living in Barnstable Village on Cape Cod when the story appeared. I asked a neighboring commercial fisherman what he though...