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Quotation from A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
“At the start of the winter came the permanent rain and with the rain came the cholera. But it was checked and in the end only seven thousand died of it in the army.”
A Farewell to Arms, Book I, Chapter I (Project Gutenberg #75201 (Scribner's, 1929))
The first chapter closes on the rain that will run through the whole novel, and on a death toll reported with deliberate flatness.
Citation: "At the start of the winter came the permanent rain and with the rain came the cholera. But it was checked and in the end only seven thousand died of it in the army." — Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Book I, Chapter I (Project Gutenberg #75201 (Scribner's, 1929)). (id a-farewell-to-arms-q1)
Portrait: ErnestHemingway, Lloyd Arnold, Public domain.
