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[Explication de la situation : With the help of Mr. Sieppe, Marcus has left San Francisco and found a job as a cowboy in a town called Modoc, in the Panamint Valley. (Keeler, Independence and Sacramento are cities in California)]

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His life was the life of a cowboy...
News from the outside world filtered slowly into the Panamint Valley, and the telegraph had never been built beyond Keeler. At intervals one of the local papers of Independence, the nearest large town, found its way into the cattle camps on the ranges, and occasionally one of the Sunday editions of a Sacramento journal, weeks old, was passed from hand to hand. Marcus ceased to hear from the Sieppes. As for San Francisco, it was as far from him as was London or Vienna.

Frank NORRIS (1870-1902), "McTeague" (US, 1899)

Extraits fournis par M. Patrick Vienne, UFR de Lettres.