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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Some Reminiscences by Joseph Conrad: comment into bits out of his own life, then pulling himself up
short and returning to the business in hand. It was very
interesting. "What's your idea of a jury-rudder now?" he queried
suddenly, at the end of an instructive anecdote bearing upon a
point of stowage.
I warned him that I had no experience of a lost rudder at sea,
and gave him two classical examples of makeshifts out of a text-
book. In exchange he described to me a jury-rudder he had
invented himself years before, when in command of a 3000-ton
steamer. It was, I declare, the cleverest contrivance
imaginable. "May be of use to you some day," he concluded. "You
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