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The Pilgrim Hawk

by Glenway Wescott, Michael Cunningham (Introduction)

3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 · rating details · 320 ratings · 60 reviews

This powerful short novel describes the events of a single afternoon. Alwyn Towers, an American expatriate and sometime novelist, is staying with a friend outside of Paris, when a well-heeled, itinerant Irish couple drops in—with Lucy, their trained hawk, a restless, sullen, disturbingly totemic presence. Lunch is prepared, drink flows. A masquerade, at once harrowing and...more

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Published January 31st 2001 by NYRB Classics (first published 1940)

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Dec 18, 2012 [P] rated it 4 of 5 stars

I was in Sheffield to visit my friend, Paul, a rather unusual young man who I had first encountered on the inaugural day of college. I hadn’t seen him for some time, but I had heard from mutual acquaintances that he had become increasingly isolated; that he was refusing nearly all social offers and instead chose to spend most of his time indoors with a newly acquired, and terribly expensive, cat.

Paul opened the front door with evident reluctance, maintaining a position in the shadows, and thrus...more

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Mar 16, 2008 Tosh rated it 4 of 5 stars

A very strange socially elegant short novel that deals with a hawk that sort of observes the world or at the very least this particular world. It sort of reminds me of going to a dinner party and not really knowing anyone - yet you stay too long. The novel had that affect on me, yet I am going to re-read it shortly. Why? My first reading some years ago made me think 'this is really good, why?' So there is an essence of a mystery of it all that pleases my sense of aesthetic.

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I’m not as enthusiastic about The Pilgrim Hawk as the reviewers I linked to in my post. It’s a well-told story working on several layers, especially when noting the focus of the subtitle (“A Love Story”) is secondary to the more subtle focus on the storyteller. The oh-so-obvious symbolism of the hawk pretty much works, although there are clumsy, heavy-handed uses at times. One of those references plays off the analogy between a captive hawk and a husband. While their natural s...more The post at my blog

I’m not as enthusiastic about The Pilgrim Hawk as the reviewers I linked to in my post. It’s a well-told story working on several layers, especially when noting the focus of the subtitle (“A Love Story”) is secondary to the more subtle focus on the storyteller. The oh-so-obvious symbolism of the hawk pretty much works, although there are clumsy, heavy-handed uses at times. One of those references plays off the analogy between a captive hawk and a husband. While their natural state is freedom, they can be trained with patience, gentleness, and care. Both accept their captivity because their needs and appetites are provided for easier than if they were free. Both will bate, that is to attempt to fly away from captivity, but the straps that hold them in place will keep them in place. The lengthy discourses on falconry proved interesting despite the heavy-handed analogy, and additional interpretations emerge as the story progresses.

The more interesting part of the story comes from the narrator’s reflection of an earlier version of himself. While the story takes place one afternoon in 1928 or 1929 (the narrator can’t remember which), the narration occurs in the early 1940s. By the end of telling the story the narrator realizes he has abstracted all meaning from that afternoon, missing the reality behind the actions. An alternative subtitle could have been “A Portrait of the Artist as a Bitter Young Man (and a Jaded Old One)” as the older narrator analyzes the younger version of himself. As the article in Open Letters Monthly succinctly puts it, “Tower [the narrator] uses the tools of novel writing and undercuts them in the same breath.” His ruminations on love, and what we often mistake for love, could also be applied to life.

There’s some fun wordplay at times, such as this example from the second paragraph of the novel, which helps lead into the species Falco peregrinus, pilgrim hawk: “In the twenties it was not unusual to meet foreigners in some country as foreign to them as to you, your peregrination just crossing theirs; and you did your best to know them in an afternoon or so; and perhaps you called that little lightning knowledge, friendship.” And the reader has to wonder how much of the self-reflection of the narrator overlaps with that of the author:

I wondered about this. Although I had been a poor boy, on a Wisconsin farm and in a slum in Chicago and in Germany in 1922, I could not recollect any exact sensation of hunger, that is to say, hunger of the stomach. And I thought—as the relatively well-fed do think—of the other human hungers, mental and sentimental and so on. For example, my own undertaking in early manhood to be a literary artist. No one warned me that I really did not have talent enough. Therefore my hope of becoming a very good artist turned bitter, hot and nerve-racking; and it would get worse as I grew older. The unsuccessful artist also ends in an apathy, too proud and vexed to fly again, waiting upon withheld inspiration, bored to death.
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I wasn't captivated by it like others are but the novella is extremely well done. Your mileage may vary. (less)

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Aug 08, 2012 Jesse rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: 1940-s, american-expats, american-lit, left-bank-excursions, literary-modernism, nyrb, on-our-bookshelf, queer-lit, queer-modernity, read-in-2012, sontagisme

After finishing The Pilgrim Hawk I couldn't help but feel as if this sparkling novel(la) was structured like an iceberg, its crystalline prose and the sharp lines of its prosody creating shimmery effects somewhat akin to a diamond refracting sunlight.

It's all very impressive--or at least impressive enough--in and of itself. But an icebergs placidly floating across a tranquil bodies of water masks a larger reality: only about 1/10 of the iceberg is ever actually visible. The mass and bulk lurks...more

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Aug 08, 2012 David rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: nyrb

The Cullens, a boorish, wealthy Irish couple, pay a visit to their friend Alexandra Henry, an American heiress living in France. Rather than bringing a bottle of grocery store wine or a modest floral arrangement, Mrs. Cullen brings her 'pet' hawk Lucy—the hooded, undomesticated, pigeon-eating symbol of the book. Fortunately enough, Alexandra has another guest staying with her named Alwyn Tower (that's a man, not an office complex) to do the play-by-play on all the character psychology, so if the...more The Cullens, a boorish, wealthy Irish couple, pay a visit to their friend Alexandra Henry, an American heiress living in France. Rather than bringing a bottle of grocery store wine or a modest floral arrangement, Mrs. Cullen brings her 'pet' hawk Lucy—the hooded, undomesticated, pigeon-eating symbol of the book. Fortunately enough, Alexandra has another guest staying with her named Alwyn Tower (that's a man, not an office complex) to do the play-by-play on all the character psychology, so if the blinking, glow-in-the-dark symbolism of the book escapes your notice, he's the giant, pointing finger that says, 'Hey. Will you look at that?' Even though Tower is mostly cold and supercilious, I'll admit that he can turn a nice phrase here and there—which makes many of his trite insights more digestible than they really have any right to be.

The entirety of this very brief novel takes place during this visit and consists (in large part) of Mrs. Cullen's Wild Kingdom-like reportage on the habits of the hawk and the ins and outs of falconry, which—after a brief flirtation with political radicalism—is her latest hobby. Of course, many of these avian behaviors she describes are synonymous in some blindingly metaphorical sense to the workings of her troubled marriage, as well as to the tumultuous relationship between Jean and Eva, two servants in the house. (At one point, the hawk shits on the parquet floor. Ain't that just the way love is?) But it doesn't help that the Cullens are unlikable, and any interest we normally might take in their conjugal health is surpassed by an urgent desire to get away from them.

It's hard not to respond to The Pilgrim Hawk with a patronizing attitude and to send it off with a pat on its quaint little head. On the one hand it seems puffed-up and dated—both in style and sensibility—but on the other hand I wasn't bored at all by it. Some of the passages, in fact, had me thinking, 'Wow. This must be a lot better than I think it is.' But it's all in the service of something so banal that it's just not easy to get excited about. (less)

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Dec 02, 2009 Sean rated it 4 of 5 stars

This is an entertaining novella to read in one sitting. The action takes place in a single afternoon of cocktails, artful mannerisms and controlled, almost blasé, hostility. And in one location: a parlor, of course. So it feels more like a play. It also feels more European in tone, but written by an American. And the setting, also European, mirrors the pampered cocoon lifestyle of the leisure class - a la The Great Gatsby.

The action is observed through the hindsight perspective of a (gay) cynic...more

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Dec 09, 2012 Will rated it 5 of 5 stars

I love this novella and you should read it.

Lately I’ve been studying the “literary impressionism” of the great early Moderns—Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford—and Pilgrim Hawk, first published in 1940, seems to me a small, late impressionist masterpiece much in the mold of The Good Soldier. Wescott was, in fact, one of a group of American writers in Ford’s circle during the Transatlantic Review days, and so perhaps it is not surprising that he deploys what I consider to be the ur-impre...more

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Feb 10, 2013 Sabine rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2013-read

Die Novelle spielt in Frankreich, Ende der 20er Jahre und handelt von den Geschehnissen eines Nachmittags: Das irische Ehepaar Cullen besucht den amerikanischen Ich-Erzähler und seine Freundin auf ihrem Landsitz. Mit dabei ist der Falke Lucy, denn Mrs. Cullen ist leidenschaftliche Jägerin. Lucy wird zum Angelpunkt aller Gespräche, löst Auseinandersetzungen aus, bringt Gefühle in Wallung und wird letztlich zum Sinnbild für Liebe und Treue, Leben und Tod.
Sehr gut gefallen hat mir der Schreibstil...more

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Jan 06, 2008 Stewart rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: united-states, nyrb-classics

"That the novel occurs over such a short period it’s a wonder that Wescott has managed to stretch it out to just over one hundred pages, but the voice he gives to Tower ensures a lazy, measured tone, never hurrying past a scene and recounting it in all its beauty; at times philosophical but always, like a hawk, observant."

Read my full review here.

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Dec 29, 2012 John rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction

In Wisconsin Writers and Writing August Derleth said that Wescott's The Pilgrim Hawk 'had in it nothing at all of the warmth of his Wisconsin books; in fact, the book was repellent. The prose style which had so distinguished his earlier books was still there, refined, if anything, into a more artistic vehicle -- but somehow in the process, the humanity had been refined right out of it. The novelette is filled with characters about whom the reader doesn't find it possible to care; the only charac...more

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Dec 19, 2012 Pamela rated it 5 of 5 stars

I've never read anything quite like this 1940 novel before. When I finished, I read it a second time, because I wanted to re-experience the beautiful compression (it's a very short book) and see how Wescott had so unobtrusively built his effects. Basically it's an account of one afternoon in the life of the narrator, an American who is a houseguest in the French countryside. Other guests arrive--a couple. The wife carries around with her, on her outstretched arm, a falcon, and she seems more dee...more

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May 08, 2010 Erik Simon rated it 3 of 5 stars

The only thing that kept this rating from dipping below three stars is the prose, which is breathtaking at times, and seamlessly beautiful throughout. But the story: bor-ing. I picked it up because Susan Sontag, whose advice I don't usually take, spoke so highly of it, and also because the author is from Wisconsin--that heartland connection always gets me. But at the center of this book about repression and freedom and bad marriages and crushed dreams is, literally, a hawk who has been captured...more

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Jul 09, 2008 David rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: read-in-2008, unexpectedly-terrific

A short (~100-page) novella that approaches perfection. It will linger in your mind long after you finish it.

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Apr 28, 2012 Richard rated it 4 of 5 stars

A quick, intricately constructed novel that unwinds like clockwork. Using a hawk as a kind of central metaphor and narrative binding agent, Glenway Wescott (What a name! Where have you gone, Glenway Wescotts?), sharply observes the unraveling relationships of eight creatures over the course of an afternoon. The narrator is visiting his friend or possibly love interest Alexandra at her house in Paris. They are in turn visited by Alex's Irish/British friends the Cullens who also bring along Mrs. C...more A quick, intricately constructed novel that unwinds like clockwork. Using a hawk as a kind of central metaphor and narrative binding agent, Glenway Wescott (What a name! Where have you gone, Glenway Wescotts?), sharply observes the unraveling relationships of eight creatures over the course of an afternoon. The narrator is visiting his friend or possibly love interest Alexandra at her house in Paris. They are in turn visited by Alex's Irish/British friends the Cullens who also bring along Mrs. Cullen's hawk, Lucy, and their chauffer, Ricketts(!). The hawk is completely wild, only kept at Mrs. Cullen's side by a hood, a leash, and the promise of food. Still, she is obsessed with it, makes it central to her life, and loves it for its complete indifference to human artifice. Her husband is jealous of the bird for the same reason. He's smothered by the need to maintain respectability and placate the whims of his wife - which often involve getting Mr. Cullen mixed up in dangerous hunting expeditions or dipping his aristocratic and ambivalent toes in revolutionary activity. With the addition of Lucy to their relationship, Mr. Cullen understandably starts feeling obsolete. Mrs. Cullen makes it clear that if the bird were released from its captivity, it would live a harsh life of hunger and eventually die of starvation as its eyesight, strength, or quickness failed. Both Cullens see a reflection of this possibility in their own lives, should either of them leave the other. As the Cullen's relationship is stretched to its limit, the narrator and Alex, unattached to each other or anyone else, but looking for the right person, are forced to examine what they want out of a relationship and what they may end up with. The handsome and confident chauffer, Ricketts, causes a similar upheaval in the life of Alex's married servants. As they wait for pigeon to be served, the hood comes off - all their fears come to the surface in a drunken act of protest, and a desperate final scene.(less)

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Sep 09, 2011 Elizabeth rated it 3 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Jesse

Shelves: 2011, french-francophone, in-by-of-the-americas, reviewed, modern-love

Remember the green light at the end of the distant dock in The Great Gatsby? Remember how Fitzgerald uses that last chapter to describe how he feels about America; his hope and disillusionment; his love and sorrow? Remember how you had to read it in high school because it's so easy to flow into a conversation, even as a sulky teen, about the symbols and themes of the book, particularly that last chapter? The Pilgrim Hawk is like reading a hundred pages of Fitzgerald and most of them in that last...more Remember the green light at the end of the distant dock in The Great Gatsby? Remember how Fitzgerald uses that last chapter to describe how he feels about America; his hope and disillusionment; his love and sorrow? Remember how you had to read it in high school because it's so easy to flow into a conversation, even as a sulky teen, about the symbols and themes of the book, particularly that last chapter? The Pilgrim Hawk is like reading a hundred pages of Fitzgerald and most of them in that last chapter, stretching it on and on, past the point that I really cared for. Tower, the narrator, is Nick in so many ways (only he's from Wisconsin), as both an observer and actor. He understands what he is in but also brings that American, middle-class perspective to bear on events. He's an insider and outsider at the same time. He's there to give those American middle-class readers a hook into the scene, a scene that they wouldn't otherwise appreciate, in many ways. He may or may not be an author stand-in. (view spoiler)

I don't want to suggest it's a Fitzgerald rip-off but it's impossible to miss the similarities, right down to the symbols that sort of beat you about the head, like the wings of a mantling bird of prey, disturbed on its perch. It's got both the flaws and the joys of reading Fitzgerald because Wescott has a beautiful way of expressing himself, particularly his thoughts on the meaning of what Tower observes, as well as the "action" (and I use the term loosely) of the story. This felt like reading Gatsby or The Last September or Theophilus North or The Buccaneers; any of those books about coming into a society centered on the big houses and privileges of its normal denizens; examining both the allure and the repulsion for both the narrators and the members of that society, in the early part of the twentieth century. It's a great example (as are the other books) of this parallel view into this world, and this book so well captures what I imagine is the feeling of being in one of these places, at this particular time, and talking to these people. There's a great scene on the patio between the two men as they consume a large amount of alcohol and the conversation becomes more pointed and personal. I could feel it.

But I didn't really like the book. It's heavy-handed with the symbolism. The misogyny and classism was difficult to deal with (view spoiler). The final action, which should have been very powerful, was lost, flat, because of how it was related. As if the author had a fear of getting too close real emotions, rather than speaking of them from behind a protective window. There is beauty and power in this book, deflated by the author's decisions in how to present it, which is a shame, really, because you can see how much potential it and the author both had.

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Aug 21, 2010 Myles rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: literary, nyrb

I read this book on a whim and recommendation from Lost Classics: Writers on Books Loved and Lost, where Jeffrey Eugenides wrote beautifully about The Pilgrim Hawk and Glenway Wescott.

There were other books that I picked up from this reccomendation too of course, The Mouse and His Child by Russell Hoban and James Hilton's Lost Horizon I remember chiefly; but there was something about Wescott that struck a chord in me. I read The Pilgrim Hawk, looked up what I could about his life and have been...more

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Jan 18, 2010 unnarrator rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Mara

Really, really, weirdly written and kind of BAD, in an Elizabeth Gaskellish way—all exposition with an overarching metaphor about as subtly wielded as a tire iron. But all the more fascinating, for it. Also a very curiously proleptic 1928 take on alcoholism (actually uses that word, which must have been a neologism at the time) and codependency. I can't quite shake this story. Will post some passages from it tomorrow—I think it's kind of amazing, actually.

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Jun 11, 2012 Judith Hannan rated it 3 of 5 stars

Michael Cunningham wrote such a glowing introduction that I assumed I would love this book, as I have loved most books published by NYRB. More novella than novel, I thought I would finish The Pilgrim Hawk in no time, but I found myself dragging throught it. The writing is pared down to its essence which made Wescott's most exquisite and pointed lines stand out as in, "Life is more perch," when comparing humans to the falcon which spends more time staring down at the world searching for food than...more

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Jul 31, 2012 Toby Tieger rated it 3 of 5 stars

If you enjoyed The Great Gatsby, I assume you'll love this book - it has a lot of the same sentence structures, and deals with a few characters that keep turning inside out. I did not love The Great Gatsby (or this book), but I can understand intellectually why they're both beautiful, even if I don't feel much of anything when I read them.

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Apr 05, 2012 Jacob Powers rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

A striking exploration of human nature. Through the center piece of the story, "Lucy" the hawk, Wescott's narrator gains insight into the deeply unconscious aspects of human nature including sexual desire, creative expression, and the boundaries of human relationships. a powerfully psychoanalytic novella, Wescott's sharp prose and keen insights leave the reader feeling there is something more to the human existence, and a desire to look deeper at her own experience.

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Dec 07, 2012 Nathaniel rated it 3 of 5 stars

I enjoyed this book; it was beautifully written in a subtle, gradual, smartly dramatic way. The descriptions of the hawk were visceral and evocative. In the end, however, I wasn't swept up in the book, though I felt like I experienced the whole world the author carefully created. I admire the skillful way Wescott wrote this slender volume. I wish more books were allowed to be so understated these days.

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Dec 27, 2011 Jon Anzalone rated it 3 of 5 stars

Certainly among the better literary works featuring a family named "Cullen." This is a decent, wise, and quotable short novel, but by the praise that I've read from it I expected something more revelatory, or more subtly potent, or more importantly memorable. It is worthy of praise but in a much restrained way than that which pulled me into reading it.

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Mar 06, 2012 Martin Walsh rated it 4 of 5 stars

The hawk of the title is an in-your-face symbol in this odd but oddly interesting novella, first published in 1940. The action, such as it is, takes place on a single afternoon; the narrator is enigmatic; the setting is a grand-ish house in a suburb of Paris. Not to be confused with Youngblood Hawke.

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May 09, 2010 Lobstergirl rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: own, nyrb, fiction

A strange, beautifully written novella about an aristocratic Irish couple, the wife's completely engrossing hawk, and two rich expatriate Americans, chewing the fat in a French villa one afternoon as servants prepare them a dinner of pigeons with white currants. Sentences like "We could hear their hunting horns which sounded like a picnic of boy sopranos, lost" had me thinking five stars right away. The entire novella didn't live up to that level, but how often do you see the phrase "avian haber...more

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Jul 23, 2012 Cory Thomas rated it 3 of 5 stars

Moderately paced short novel which focuses on the shifting symbolism of the titular bird in the context of a single afternoon. Some clever scenes, particularly near the end, and a narrator whose ruminations elevate and disappoint the reader by turns.

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Aug 26, 2011 Melissa Mcavoy rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction

A beautifully written haunting book. I don't love the plot. I certainly don't love the characters, but it could not be a more perfect version of itself. Gorgeous prose. It reminds me of Ford Maddox Ford's A Good Soldier, though less unbelievable and melodramatic. A wonderful book to read and reread.

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Dec 29, 2012 David Stone rated it 5 of 5 stars

What is fascinating about this novella is not the Cullens, but the narrator's responses to them. I have never read the hunger for love so perfectly and sadly described anywhere else. The hawk is magnificent.

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Jul 27, 2011 Stephen rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011

"A bird hanging from the jesses is said to be 'in a bate": the crux of this perfectly formed novella is deciding not which of the Cullens is bated, for they both are, but in watching how they each respond to it.

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Feb 28, 2011 Dayna Ingram rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: novella, assigned-reading, reviewed

This was ... pretty funny. I feel like I didn't get a lot out of this book, but that's most likely due to my own density, plus I read it really fast. Anyway, not bad.

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Nov 13, 2011 Matthew Berkshire rated it 3 of 5 stars

A very nice read. Great use of a prop. Risky in writing about a writer, but overall not a risky novel. Still it was really well done and a pleasure to read.

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Glenway Wescott grew up in Wisconsin and briefly attended the University of Chicago where he met in 1919 his longtime partner Monroe Wheeler.

In 1925 he and Wheeler moved to France, where they mingled with Gertrude Stein and other American expatriates, notably Ernest Hemingway, who created an unflattering portrait of Wescott in the character of Robert Prentiss in The Sun Also Rises.

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