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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from 'Twixt Land & Sea by Joseph Conrad: coming on! To hear one's skipper go on like that in such weather
was enough to drive any fellow out of his mind. It worked me up
into a sort of desperation. I just took it into my own hands and
went away from him, boiling, and - But what's the use telling you?
YOU know! . . . Do you think that if I had not been pretty fierce
with them I should have got the men to do anything? Not it! The
bo's'n perhaps? Perhaps! It wasn't a heavy sea - it was a sea
gone mad! I suppose the end of the world will be something like
that; and a man may have the heart to see it coming once and be
done with it - but to have to face it day after day - I don't blame
anybody. I was precious little better than the rest. Only - I was
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