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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Blix by Frank Norris: inevitable, and after a while we'll hardly even meet. In a way,
it's a pity; but, of course, one has to be sensible about these
things....Well, this whaleback now."
He rang up the Chamber of Commerce, and found out that the "City
of Everett," which was the whaleback's name, was at the Mission
Street wharf. This made it possible for him to write the article
in two ways. He either could fake his copy from a clipping on the
subject which the exchange editor had laid on his desk, or he
could go down in person to the wharf, interview the captain, and
inspect the craft for himself. The former was the short and easy
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