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42. It was a short story
Thu Jun 10, 2021, 06:50 PM
Jun 2021

written by his autobiographic alter ego, Nick Adams. Hemingway wrote in what he described as the iceberg theory; being far greater than what it seemed.

The river was the Fox.

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