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Contenido: Writing the bodies of water: the clash of the lasting and the catastrophic in the Odes of Horace / Rosemary M. Nielsen and Robert H. Solomon -- Climate as science and metaphor in the Newmyer -- Astral and tidal phenomena, earthquake prediction, and The astronomical clock of Juan de Barrenechea / Robert J. Morris -- Zola's uses of climate in The Land / Wendell McClendon -- The role of climate in Spanish American fiction / George R. McMurray -- The endless rains of death and desolation in García Márquez's short stories / Clementina R. Adams -- Creating an atmosphere: depiction of climate in the works of Gabriel / Gary S. Elbow -- The weather as a story element in four short works from Latin America / Paul Nelson -- Heat, water and stars in Pedro Páramo / Cida Chase -- Ices everlasting and passions perverted: the physical and moral climate of Puig's anti-utopia / Leonard A. Cheever -- Influence of climate...