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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: How it got there, how it had crept up so high, I
couldn't say. It had an ominous appearance. The
air did not stir. At a renewed invitation from
Ransome I did go down into the cabin to--in his
own words--"try and eat something." I don't
know that the trial was very successful. I sup-
pose at that period I did exist on food in the usual
way; but the memory is now that in those days life
was sustained on invincible anguish, as a sort of
infernal stimulant exciting and consuming at the
same time.
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