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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: chimneys opposite quite distinctly, and then a sky of such brown
as only London can display.
"I saw a placard," I said: "'More Ponderevity.'"
"That's Boom," he said. "Boom and his damned newspapers. He's
trying to fight me down. Ever since I offered to buy the Daily
Decorator he's been at me. And he thinks consolidating Do Ut cut
down the ads. He wants everything, damn him! He's got no sense
of dealing. I'd like to bash his face!"
"Well," I said, "what's to be done?"
"Keep going," said my uncle.
"I'll smash Boom yet," he said, with sudden savagery.
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