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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad: out the ghost of impact, I became instantaneously
soaked to the skin. Not a very difficult matter,
since I was wearing only my sleeping suit. My
hair got full of water in an instant, water streamed
on my skin, it filled my nose, my ears, my eyes.
In a fraction of a second I swallowed quite a lot
of it.
As to Gambril, he was fairly choked. He
coughed pitifully, the broken cough of a sick man;
and I beheld him as one sees a fish in an aquarium
by the light of an electric bulb, an elusive, phos-
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