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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: silence.
Over the low river-mist hiding the boat with its freight of young
passionate life and all-forgetful happiness, the stars paled, and
a silvery-grey tint crept over the sky from the eastward. There
was not a breath of wind, not a rustle of stirring leaf, not a
splash of leaping fish to disturb the serene repose of all living
things on the banks of the great river. Earth, river, and sky
were wrapped up in a deep sleep, from which it seemed there would
be no waking. All the seething life and movement of tropical
nature seemed concentrated in the ardent eyes, in the
tumultuously beating hearts of the two beings drifting in the
Almayer's Folly |
