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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad: I kept the bundle of papers given me by Kurtz, not knowing
exactly what to do with it. His mother had died lately,
watched over, as I was told, by his Intended. A clean-shaved man,
with an official manner and wearing gold-rimmed spectacles,
called on me one day and made inquiries, at first circuitous,
afterwards suavely pressing, about what he was pleased to
denominate certain `documents.' I was not surprised, because I
had had two rows with the manager on the subject out there.
I had refused to give up the smallest scrap out of that package,
and I took the same attitude with the spectacled man.
He became darkly menacing at last, and with much heat argued that
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