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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: - a Whistler. But the next thing said by the voice behind me made
me turn round. It growled out contempt for all associated notions
of roaring seas with concise energy, then went on -
"I - no such foolishness - looking at the rocks out there - more
likely call to mind an office - I used to look in sometimes at one
time - office in London - one of them small streets behind Cannon
Street Station. . . "
He was very deliberate; not jerky, only fragmentary; at times
profane.
"That's a rather remote connection," I observed, approaching him.
"Connection? To Hades with your connections. It was an accident."
Within the Tides | 
