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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad: these heads were the heads of rebels. I shocked him excessively
by laughing. Rebels! What would be the next definition I was to hear?
There had been enemies, criminals, workers--and these were rebels.
Those rebellious heads looked very subdued to me on their sticks.
`You don't know how such a life tries a man like Kurtz,'
cried Kurtz's last disciple. `Well, and you?' I said.
`I! I! I am a simple man. I have no great thoughts.
I want nothing from anybody. How can you compare me to . . . ?'
His feelings were too much for speech, and suddenly he broke down.
`I don't understand,' he groaned. `I've been doing my best
to keep him alive, and that's enough. I had no hand in all this.
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