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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad: order. He was sitting up in his bunk, his body
looking immensely long, his head drooping a little
sideways, with affected complacency. He flour-
ished, in his trembling hand, on the end of a fore-
arm no thicker than a walking-stick, a shining
pair of scissors which he tried before my very eyes
to jab at his throat.
I was to a certain extent horrified; but it was
rather a secondary sort of effect, not really strong
enough to make me yell at him in some such man-
ner as: "Stop!" . . . "Heavens!" . . .
The Shadow Line |
