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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad: weighting the craft. Dominic gave the order to throw the whole lot
overboard.
I would have had the yard thrown overboard, too, he said, leading
me aft again, "if it had not been for the trouble. Let no sign
escape you," he continued, lowering his voice, "but I am going to
tell you something terrible. Listen: I have observed that the
roping stitches on that sail have been cut! You hear? Cut with a
knife in many places. And yet it stood all that time. Not enough
cut. That flap did it at last. What matters it? But look!
there's treachery seated on this very deck. By the horns of the
devil! seated here at our very backs. Do not turn, signorine."
The Mirror of the Sea |
