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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: conceited. It was weird and it was nothing. This was the feeling that
echoed and re-echoed at the bottom of Connie's soul: it was all flag, a
wonderful display of nothingness; At the same time a display. A
display! a display! a display!
Michaelis had seized upon Clifford as the central figure for a play;
already he had sketched in the plot, and written the first act. For
Michaelis was even better than Clifford at making a display of
nothingness. It was the last bit of passion left in these men: the
passion for making a display. Sexually they were passionless, even
dead. And now it was not money that Michaelis was after. Clifford had
never been primarily out for money, though he made it where he could,
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