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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from 'Twixt Land & Sea by Joseph Conrad: already lonely, already desolate.
"Hold him!" yelled a voice from the bridge.
Jasper had started to run to his brig with a headlong impulse, as a
man dashes forward to pull away with his hands a living, breathing,
loved creature from the brink of destruction. "Hold him! Stick to
him!" vociferated the lieutenant at the top of the bridge-ladder,
while Jasper struggled madly without a word, only his head emerging
from the heaving crowd of the Neptun's seamen, who had flung
themselves upon him obediently. "Hold - I would not have that
fellow drown himself for anything now!"
Jasper ceased struggling.
'Twixt Land & Sea |
