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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad: She was a taut, trim, neat little craft, extremely well kept; and
on that serene evening when we passed her close she looked the
embodiment of coquettish comfort on the sea. It was somewhere near
the Cape - THE Cape being, of course, the Cape of Good Hope, the
Cape of Storms of its Portuguese discoverer. And whether it is
that the word "storm" should not be pronounced upon the sea where
the storms dwell thickly, or because men are shy of confessing
their good hopes, it has become the nameless cape - the Cape TOUT
COURT. The other great cape of the world, strangely enough, is
seldom if ever called a cape. We say, "a voyage round the Horn";
"we rounded the Horn"; "we got a frightful battering off the Horn";
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