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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad: incomprehensible in its division of the domain of tropical fishes,
and crazy of aspect as if abandoned forever by some nomad
tribe of fishermen now gone to the other end of the ocean;
for there was no sign of human habitation as far as the eye
could reach. To the left a group of barren islets,
suggesting ruins of stone walls, towers, and blockhouses,
had its foundations set in a blue sea that itself looked solid,
so still and stable did it lie below my feet; even the track
of light from the westering sun shone smoothly, without that
animated glitter which tells of an imperceptible ripple.
And when I turned my head to take a parting glance at the tug
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