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To Build a Fire
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Jack London
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Themes: Humans Versus Nature
Themes: The Cost of Masculinity
Themes: The Limits of Individualism
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The Trouble With Him Was That He Was Without Imagination. He Was Quick and Alert in the Things of Life, but Only in the Things, and Not in the Significances.
Fifty Degrees Below Zero Meant Eighty-odd Degrees of Frost. Such Fact Impressed Him as Being Cold and Uncomfortable, and That Was All. It Did Not Lead Him to Meditate Upon His Frailty as a Creature of Temperature, and Upon Man's Frailty in General, Able O
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To Build a Fire
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