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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Youth by Joseph Conrad: flames of the burning ship, throwing a magic light on the
wide earth, leaping audaciously to the sky, presently to
be quenched by time, more cruel, more pitiless, more
bitter than the sea--and like the flames of the burning
ship surrounded by an impenetrable night.
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"The old man warned us in his gentle and inflexible
way that it was part of our duty to save for the under-
writers as much as we could of the ship's gear. Accord-
ing we went to work aft, while she blazed forward to give
us plenty of light. We lugged out a lot of rubbish.
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