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Coming of age story as a Dutch youth must depend on the only other survivor, a Black, after their ship is torpedoed in the Caribbean during WWII. Phillip is temporarily blinded.
"We went out about fifty feet along the reef, and then he said, 'Now, we feesh.' He described the hole to me. It was about twenty feet in diameter and six to eight feet deep. The bottom was sandy, but mostly free of coral so that my hooks would not snag. he said there was a 'mos' natural opening in the sea so that the fish could swim in and out of this coral-walled pool. He took my hand to have me feel all around the edge of the hole. The coral had been smoothed over by centuries of sea wash. Timothy said the sand in the sea water acted like a grindstone on the sharp edges of the coral."
"We went out about fifty feet along the reef, and then he said, 'Now, we feesh.' He described the hole to me. It was about twenty feet in diameter and six to eight feet deep. The bottom was sandy, but mostly free of coral so that my hooks would not snag. he said there was a 'mos' natural opening in the sea so that the fish could swim in and out of this coral-walled pool. He took my hand to have me feel all around the edge of the hole. The coral had been smoothed over by centuries of sea wash. Timothy said the sand in the sea water acted like a grindstone on the sharp edges of the coral."
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