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It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild. (Ch.1)

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Jack London
Age: 40 †
Born: 1876
Born: January 12
Died: 1916
Died: November 22
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San Francisco County
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