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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: that other sleeping suit.
"It happened while we were setting a reefed foresail, at dusk.
Reefed foresail! You understand the sort of weather. The only sail we
had left to keep the ship running; so you may guess what it had been
like for days. Anxious sort of job, that. He gave me some of his cursed
insolence at the sheet. I tell you I was overdone with this terrific weather
that seemed to have no end to it. Terrific, I tell you--and a deep ship.
I believe the fellow himself was half crazed with funk. It was no time
for gentlemanly reproof, so I turned round and felled him like an ox.
He up and at me. We closed just as an awful sea made for the ship.
All hands saw it coming and took to the rigging, but I had him by
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