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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from 'Twixt Land & Sea by Joseph Conrad: towering shadow of Koh-ring as if I had shouted in a mountain
gorge. And then I watched the land intently. In that smooth water
and light wind it was impossible to feel the ship coming-to. No!
I could not feel her. And my second self was making now ready to
slip out and lower himself overboard. Perhaps he was gone already
. . .?
The great black mass brooding over our very mastheads began to
pivot away from the ship's side silently. And now I forgot the
secret stranger ready to depart, and remembered only that I was a
total stranger to the ship. I did not know her. Would she do it?
How was she to be handled?
'Twixt Land & Sea | 
