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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: I had been haunted by gruesome images enough. I
had had visions of a ship drifting in calms and
swinging in light airs, with all her crew dying slowly
about her decks. Such things had been known to
happen.
Mr. Burns met my outburst by a mysterious
silence.
"Look here," I said. "You don't believe your-
self what you say. You can't. It's impossible.
It isn't the sort of thing I have a right to expect
from you. My position's bad enough without
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