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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: if within a magic ring, not very far from the Azores - ships more
or less tall. There were hardly two of them heading exactly the
same way, as if each had meditated breaking out of the enchanted
circle at a different point of the compass. But the spell of the
calm is a strong magic. The following day still saw them scattered
within sight of each other and heading different ways; but when, at
last, the breeze came with the darkling ripple that ran very blue
on a pale sea, they all went in the same direction together. For
this was the homeward-bound fleet from the far-off ends of the
earth, and a Falmouth fruit-schooner, the smallest of them all, was
heading the flight. One could have imagined her very fair, if not
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