In his letter to his friend Guy Hickok Hemingway described an out-of-body or near-death experience triggered by the close explosion of a mortar shell that kille

In his letter to his friend Guy Hickok Hemingway described an out-of-body or near-death experience triggered by the close explosion of a mortar shell that killed a soldier next to him: "There was one of those big noises you sometimes hear at the front. I died then. I felt my soul or something coming right out of my body, like you'd pull a silk handkerchief out of a pocket by one corner. It flew around and then came back and went in again and I wasn’t dead anymore.” sources https://greatwar.nl/hemingway/hemingway.html https://www.ehemingway.com/biography Letter to Hickok does not appear to be available online. But his "Natural History of the Dead" is at https://short-stories.co/@ernesthemingway/a-natural-history-of-the-dead-0gpz4rgjln7d