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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Figure in the Carpet by Henry James: been able to go into the thing again in the midst of such different
and such powerful solicitations!"
"He hasn't gone into it, I know; it's the thing itself, let
severely alone for six months, that has simply sprung out at him
like a tigress out of the jungle. He didn't take a book with him -
on purpose; indeed he wouldn't have needed to - he knows every
page, as I do, by heart. They all worked in him together, and some
day somewhere, when he wasn't thinking, they fell, in all their
superb intricacy, into the one right combination. The figure in
the carpet came out. That's the way he knew it would come and the
real reason - you didn't in the least understand, but I suppose I
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