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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: One might have been swimming in a confounded thousand-feet deep
cistern with no place for scrambling out anywhere; but what I didn't
like was the notion of swimming round and round like a crazed
bullock before I gave out; and as I didn't mean to go back.
. . No. Do you see me being hauled back, stark naked,
off one of these little islands by the scruff of the neck
and fighting like a wild beast? Somebody would have got killed
for certain, and I did not want any of that. So I went on.
Then your ladder--"
"Why didn't you hail the ship?" I asked, a little louder.
He touched my shoulder lightly. Lazy footsteps came right over our heads
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