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"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" | "The Capital of the World" | "The Snows of Kilimanjaro"

• The Macombers are a couple with a bad relationship who are on an African Safari. Francis wounds a lion one day, but is too afraid to kill it and is mocked for his cowardice.

• The next day, Francis shoots and kills a buffalo and gains a lot of confidence in himself. His wife shoots him in the back of the head, claiming she was trying to shoot a buffalo.

• Paco works at a hotel where bullfighters stay and has always wanted to be a bullfighter. A dish washer at the hotel holds some knives and pretends to be a bull.

• Paco plays a game with him pretending to bullfight when he is stabbed by one of the knives. He dies while waiting for the ambulance to come.

• While Harry is dying of...

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