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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Some Reminiscences by Joseph Conrad: month before, or perhaps it was only a week before, that I had
read to him aloud from beginning to end, and to his perfect
satisfaction, as he lay on his bed, not being very well at the
time, the proofs of his translation of Victor Hugo's "Toilers of
the Sea." Such was my title to consideration, I believe, and
also my first introduction to the sea in literature. If I do not
remember where, how and when I learned to read, I am not likely
to forget the process of being trained in the art of reading
aloud. My poor father, an admirable reader himself, was the most
exacting of masters. I reflect proudly that I must have read
that page of "Two Gentlemen of Verona" tolerably well at the age
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