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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: awake, because Belarab wanted to impart to him information of the
greatest importance. It seemed to Lingard that he had been awake
ever since he could remember. It was as to being alive that he
felt not so sure. He had no doubt of his existence; but was this
life--this profound indifference, this strange contempt for what
his eyes could see, this distaste for words, this unbelief in the
importance of things and men? He tried to regain possession of
himself, his old self which had things to do, words to speak as
well as to hear. But it was too difficult. He was seduced away by
the tense feeling of existence far superior to the mere
consciousness of life, and which in its immensity of
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