The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Under the Andes by Rex Stout: successful.
"As for me," I declared, "I shall eat fish every day of my
life out of pure gratitude."
"You'll do it out of pure necessity," Harry put in, "if you
don't get busy."
It took us three hours of whacking and slashing and tearing to
pull the fish to pieces, but we worked with a purpose and a will.
When we had finished, this is what we had to show: A long strip of
bone, four inches thick and twelve feet long, and tough as hickory,
from either side of which the smaller bones projected at right
angles. They were about an inch in thickness and two inches apart.
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