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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: "Transparency: a state or quality of body which permits all rays of light to
pass through," he defined for me. "That is what I am seeking. Lloyd blunders
up against the shadow with his perfect opaqueness. But I escape it. A
transparent body casts no shadow; neither does it reflect light-waves--that
is, the perfectly transparent does not. So, avoiding high lights, not only
will such a body cast no shadow, but, since it reflects no light, it will also
be invisible."
We were standing by the window at another time. Paul was engaged in polishing
a number of lenses, which were ranged along the sill. Suddenly, after a pause
in the conversation, he said, "Oh! I've dropped a lens. Stick your head out,
old man, and see where it went to."
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