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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: come scatheless through life, conscious only of himself, of
his great strength and intelligence; and in the silence of
the universe, to which he did not listen, dwelling with
delight on the sound of his own thoughts.
THE SEA FOGS
A CHANGE in the colour of the light usually called me in the
morning. By a certain hour, the long, vertical chinks in our
western gable, where the boards had shrunk and separated,
flashed suddenly into my eyes as stripes of dazzling blue, at
once so dark and splendid that I used to marvel how the
qualities could be combined. At an earlier hour, the heavens
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