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Arm wrestle burly fish in this adaptation of Hemingway’s philosophy of manhood
If you’ve never read Ernest Hemingway’s 1952 novel The Old Man and the Sea there is now an abridged version in which you arm wrestle a marlin. It’s a videogame with the superb title of The Old Man Club, which not only refers back to the novel’s title, but may also allude to a critique of those who have interpreted Hemingway’s writing as expressing a supreme form of manliness. embody everything that is considered to be traditionally masculine In The Old Man and the Sea, the masculine reading is found by those who seek it in the struggle of an…