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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad: forty years old, and he was a great voyager on the inland sea.
Astute and ruthless, he could have rivalled in resource the
unfortunate son of Laertes and Anticlea. If he did not pit his
craft and audacity against the very gods, it is only because the
Olympian gods are dead. Certainly no woman could frighten him. A
one-eyed giant would not have had the ghost of a chance against
Dominic Cervoni, of Corsica, not Ithaca; and no king, son of kings,
but of very respectable family - authentic Caporali, he affirmed.
But that is as it may be. The Caporali families date back to the
twelfth century.
For want of more exalted adversaries Dominic turned his audacity
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