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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Lesson of the Master by Henry James: try to stultify yourself and pretend you don't know what we HAVEN'T
got. It's bigger than all the rest. Between artists - come!" the
Master wound up. "You know as well as you sit there that you'd put
a pistol-ball into your brain if you had written my books!"
It struck his listener that the tremendous talk promised by him at
Summersoft had indeed come off, and with a promptitude, a fulness,
with which the latter's young imagination had scarcely reckoned.
His impression fairly shook him and he throbbed with the excitement
of such deep soundings and such strange confidences. He throbbed
indeed with the conflict of his feelings - bewilderment and
recognition and alarm, enjoyment and protest and assent, all
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