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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: nothing.
Crickets were not wanting. I thought I could make out
exactly four of them, each with a corner of his own, who used
to make night musical at Silverado. In the matter of voice,
they far excelled the birds, and their ringing whistle
sounded from rock to rock, calling and replying the same
thing, as in a meaningless opera. Thus, children in full
health and spirits shout together, to the dismay of
neighbours; and their idle, happy, deafening vociferations
rise and fall, like the song of the crickets. I used to sit
at night on the platform, and wonder why these creatures were
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