No .. I was actually thinking of Orwell's Down and Out Joe ... I read that book when my wife and I were very poor students living in a dump of an apartment ... but i did have a Jack London binge a few winters back and the Abyss was one of the books I read ... thus the dark, bleak cold winter association ... definately a crossover of mixups when I made that post. A middle age moment.

Thanks for mentioning that. Jack London is one of my favourite authors.

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