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Sunday, November 18, 2018
007 Running Water (novel)
As of November 18, 2018, the entry for the 1906 adventure novel by A.E.W. Mason Running Water does not mention that it is almost certainly (given its plot) the intended referent in the following passage from Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises: "The book was something by A.E.W. Mason, and I was reading a wonderful story about a man who had been frozen in the Alps and then fallen into a glacier and disappeared [...]" etc.
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