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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad: could fix yourself so as not to feel a constant strain upon all the
muscles of your body. She rolled and rolled with an awful
dislodging jerk and that dizzily fast sweep of her masts on every
swing. It was a wonder that the men sent aloft were not flung off
the yards, the yards not flung off the masts, the masts not flung
overboard. The captain in his armchair, holding on grimly at the
head of the table, with the soup-tureen rolling on one side of the
cabin and the steward sprawling on the other, would observe,
looking at me: "That's your one-third above the beams. The only
thing that surprises me is that the sticks have stuck to her all
this time."
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