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Kennedy perceives that in Hemingway “place is the organizing principle
Kennedy perceives that in Hemingway “place is the organizing principle
 
of memory” {{sfn|Kennedy|1999|pp=328}}. This claim rings true: we may think of the title and epigraph for Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises (1926) or we could reflect on the
archetypal nature of so many settings in Hemingway’s work.<sup>9</sup> We might think
about the complex relationship between inner and outer landscapes, remembering Mailer’s poignant description of Hemingway, that his “inner landscape was a nightmare” {{sfn|Sipiora|2013|pp=170}}.<sup>10</sup> Maybe it was. It needs to be said, however, that whenever we encounter landscape, it is always as pictured through our senses, as refracted through our own perspective, as recreated from our own memories.
So Kennedy writes of Harry’s “to
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