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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: "Very true," he went on warmly. "And that is because they are not perfectly
black. Were they perfectly black, absolutely black, as it were, we could not
see them--ay, not in the blaze of a thousand suns could we see them! And so I
say, with the right pigments, properly compounded, an absolutely black paint
could be produced which would render invisible whatever it was applied to."
"It would be a remarkable discovery," I said non-committally, for the whole
thing seemed too fantastic for aught but speculative purposes.
"Remarkable!" Lloyd slapped me on the shoulder. "I should say so. Why, old
chap, to coat myself with such a paint would be to put the world at my feet.
The secrets of kings and courts would be mine, the machinations of diplomats
and politicians, the play of stock-gamblers, the plans of trusts and
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