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...wife. In a later book, Hemingway states the parallels between woman and land even more explicitly:"! loved the country so that I was happy as you are after you have been with a woman that you really love" (GH 72-73). Indians provide a link in the Nick Adams Michigan stories between the two feminine realms...

...looking out the tunnel of trees over the ravine at the sky with white clouds moving across in the wind, I loved the country so that I was happy as you are...have it all and yet what there is, now, you can have, and you want more and more, to have, and be, and live in, to possess now again for always, for that...

...all of that, a kind of retreat into the landscape of childhood, now transported to a new continent. / loved the country so that I was happy as you are after...you have been with a •woman that you really love . . . andyou want more and more, to have, and be, and live in, to possess now again for always, for...