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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Beast in the Jungle by Henry James: a date!"
He found himself again too helplessly at sea. "But come in the
night--come and passed me by?"
May Bartram had her strange faint smile. "Oh no, it hasn't passed
you by!"
"But if I haven't been aware of it and it hasn't touched me--?"
"Ah your not being aware of it"--and she seemed to hesitate an
instant to deal with this--"your not being aware of it is the
strangeness in the strangeness. It's the wonder OF the wonder."
She spoke as with the softness almost of a sick child, yet now at
last, at the end of all, with the perfect straightness of a sibyl.
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