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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Arrow of Gold by Joseph Conrad: incomprehensible emotions. I was as much of a stranger as the most
hopeless castaway stumbling in the dark upon a hut of natives and
finding them in the grip of some situation appertaining to the
mentalities, prejudices, and problems of an undiscovered country -
of a country of which he had not even had one single clear glimpse
before.
It was even worse in a way. It ought to have been more
disconcerting. For, pursuing the image of the cast-away blundering
upon the complications of an unknown scheme of life, it was I, the
castaway, who was the savage, the simple innocent child of nature.
Those people were obviously more civilized than I was. They had
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