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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: two small clumps of trees, one on each side of the only fault
in the impeccable joint, marked the mouth of the river Meinam
we had just left on the first preparatory stage of our
homeward journey; and, far back on the inland level, a larger
and loftier mass, the grove surrounding the great Paknam pagoda,
was the only thing on which the eye could rest from the vain
task of exploring the monotonous sweep of the horizon.
Here and there gleams as of a few scattered pieces of silver marked
the windings of the great river; and on the nearest of them,
just within the bar, the tug steaming right into the land became
lost to my sight, hull and funnel and masts, as though the impassive
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