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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Art of Writing by Robert Louis Stevenson: clarify my unformed fancies.
And while I was groping for the fable and the character
required, behold I found them lying ready and nine years old
in my memory. Pease porridge hot, pease porridge cold, pease
porridge in the pot, nine years old. Was there ever a more
complete justification of the rule of Horace? Here, thinking
of quite other things, I had stumbled on the solution, or
perhaps I should rather say (in stagewright phrase) the
Curtain or final Tableau of a story conceived long before on
the moors between Pitlochry and Strathardle, conceived in
Highland rain, in the blend of the smell of heather and bog-
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