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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad: shoulder gripped with such force in the carpenter's powerful paw
that I positively yelled with unexpected pain. The man's eyes
stared close in my face, and he shouted, "Look, sir! look! What's
this?" pointing ahead with his other hand.
At first I saw nothing. The sea was one empty wilderness of black
and white hills. Suddenly, half-concealed in the tumult of the
foaming rollers I made out awash, something enormous, rising and
falling - something spread out like a burst of foam, but with a
more bluish, more solid look.
It was a piece of an ice-floe melted down to a fragment, but still
big enough to sink a ship, and floating lower than any raft, right
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