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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Octopus by Frank Norris: "What shall I do, what shall I do, oh, what shall I do, now?"
After an interminable walk, she gained Kearney Street, and held
it till the well-lighted, well-kept neighbourhood of the shopping
district gave place to the vice-crowded saloons and concert halls
of the Barbary Coast. She turned aside in avoidance of this,
only to plunge into the purlieus of Chinatown, whence only she
emerged, panic-stricken and out of breath, after a half hour of
never-to-be-forgotten terrors, and at a time when it had grown
quite dark.
On the corner of California and Dupont streets, she stood a long
moment, pondering.
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