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'''''The Naked and the Dead'''''. New York: Rinehart, 6 May; London: Wingate, 9 May 1949. Novel, 721 pp., $4. | '''''The Naked and the Dead'''''. New York: Rinehart, 6 May; London: Wingate, 9 May 1949. Novel, 721 pp., $4. | ||
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{{cquote|I came out of the Army with an idea for a novel about a long patrol, an idea which had been bound in its origins to a mountain which was to serve as both an actual mass of stone and as a symbolic base for the book. The original conception was allegorical. The mountain was a consciously ambiguous symbol, something too complex, too intangible, to be defined by language. ([[48.4]])}} | {{cquote|I came out of the Army with an idea for a novel about a long patrol, an idea which had been bound in its origins to a mountain which was to serve as both an actual mass of stone and as a symbolic base for the book. The original conception was allegorical. The mountain was a consciously ambiguous symbol, something too complex, too intangible, to be defined by language. ([[48.4]])}} | ||
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