The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne: the insight, and my
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hand the cunning, to transcribe it. At some future day, it may
be, I shall remember a few scattered fragments and broken
paragraphs, and write them down, and find the letters turn to
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