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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis: learning. His shoes were black laced boots, good boots, honest boots,
standard boots, extraordinarily uninteresting boots. The only frivolity was in
his purple knitted scarf. With considerable comment on the matter to Mrs.
Babbitt (who, acrobatically fastening the back of her blouse to her skirt with
a safety-pin, did not hear a word he said), he chose between the purple scarf
and a tapestry effect with stringless brown harps among blown palms, and into
it he thrust a snake-head pin with opal eyes.
A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents
of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal
importance, like baseball or the Republican Party. They included a fountain
pen and a silver pencil (always lacking a supply of new leads) which belonged
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