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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad: everything was blotted out in the dreadful smooth-
ness of that absolute night.
A flash of lightning would have been a relief--I
mean physically. I would have prayed for it if it
hadn't been for my shrinking apprehension of the
thunder. In the tension of silence I was suffering
from it seemed to me that the first crash must turn
me into dust.
And thunder was, most likely, what would hap-
pen next. Stiff all over and hardly breathing,
I waited with a horribly strained expectation.
The Shadow Line | 
