A good idea, he thought, to sleep off to death. It was like taking an anaesthetic. Freezing was not so bad as people thought. There were lots worse ways to die... Then the man drowsed off into what seemed to him the most comfortable and satisfying sleep he had ever known.

Jack London

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Topic

Moment of death Facing death Death

Author

Jack London

Source

To Build a Fire

Medium

Short story

Language

English

Time

1902 1900s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United States

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Original Citation

London, Jack. "To Build a Fire." The Youth's Companion, 29 May 1902.

Current Citation

London, Jack. "To Build a Fire." The Call of the Wild and Selected Stories. Signet, 2009.

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Under certain circumstances, one nowhere feels as lonely and lost as in the metropolitan crowd.

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Source
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Statement Type
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Language
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Time
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Simmel, Georg. "Die Großstädte und das Geistesleben [The Metropolis and Mental Life]." The First German Municipal Exposition. 1903, Dresden, Germany.

Current Citation

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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.

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Author

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Source
Of Death Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral
Medium
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Language
English
Time
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Era
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Original Citation

Bacon, Francis. "Of Death." Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall. London: John Haviland, 1625.

Current Citation

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