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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: remember how it came about or how the pocket-
book and the pencil came into my hands. It's in-
conceivable that I should have looked for them on
purpose. I suppose they saved me from the crazy
trick of talking to myself.
Strangely enough, in both cases I took to that
sort of thing in circumstances in which I did not ex-
pect, in colloquial phrase, "to come out of it."
Neither could I expect the record to outlast me.
This shows that it was purely a personal need for
intimate relief and not a call of egotism.
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