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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: at the building of a pyramid, we got it as far as the house and up
on to the edge of the west verandah - which was the actual drawing-
room of the bungalow. There, the case being ripped off cautiously,
the beautiful rosewood monster stood revealed at last. In reverent
excitement we coaxed it against the wall and drew the first free
breath of the day. It was certainly the heaviest movable object on
that islet since the creation of the world. The volume of sound it
gave out in that bungalow (which acted as a sounding-board) was
really astonishing. It thundered sweetly right over the sea.
Jasper Allen told me that early of a morning on the deck of the
Bonito (his wonderfully fast and pretty brig) he could hear Freya
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