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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain: house droned out the eight words in a massed and measured and
musical deep volume of sound (with a daringly close resemblance to a
well-known church chant)--"You are f-a-r from being a b-a-a-a-d
man." Then the Chair said, "Signature, 'Archibald Wilcox.'" And so
on, and so on, name after name, and everybody had an increasingly
and gloriously good time except the wretched Nineteen. Now and
then, when a particularly shining name was called, the house made
the Chair wait while it chanted the whole of the test-remark from
the beginning to the closing words, "And go to hell or Hadleyburg--
try and make it the for-or-m-e-r!" and in these special cases they
added a grand and agonised and imposing "A-a-a-a-MEN!"
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