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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from My Antonia by Willa Cather: then prefixed another word, making it "My Antonia."
That seemed to satisfy him.
"Read it as soon as you can," he said, rising, "but don't let it
influence your own story."
My own story was never written, but the following narrative
is Jim's manuscript, substantially as he brought it to me.
NOTES: [1] The Bohemian name Antonia is strongly accented
on the first syllable, like the English name Anthony,
and the `i' is, of course, given the sound of long `e'. The
name is pronounced An'-ton-ee-ah.
BOOK I
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