"Albacore," he said aloud. "He'll make a beautiful bait. He'll weight ten punds."
He did not remember when he had first started to talk aloud when he was by himself. He had sung when he was by himself in the old days and he had sung at night sometimes when he was alone steering on his watch in the smacks or in the turtle boats. He had probably started to talk aloud, when alone, when the boy left. But he did not remember.
Quotation from: The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
