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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: the noise of which he fancied he could hear yet; and now, with an
awful shock, he had reached the bottom, and behold! he was alive
and whole, and Dain was dead with all his bones broken. It
struck him as funny. A dead Malay; he had seen many dead Malays
without any emotion; and now he felt inclined to weep, but it was
over the fate of a white man he knew; a man that fell over a deep
precipice and did not die. He seemed somehow to himself to be
standing on one side, a little way off, looking at a certain
Almayer who was in great trouble. Poor, poor fellow! Why doesn't
he cut his throat? He wished to encourage him; he was very
anxious to see him lying dead over that other corpse. Why does
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