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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: "I - no such foolishness - looking at the rocks out there - more
likely call to mind an office - I used to look in sometimes at one
time - office in London - one of them small streets behind Cannon
Street Station. . . "
He was very deliberate; not jerky, only fragmentary; at times
profane.
"That's a rather remote connection," I observed, approaching him.
"Connection? To Hades with your connections. It was an accident."
"Still," I said, "an accident has its backward and forward
connections, which, if they could be set forth - "
Without moving he seemed to lend an attentive ear.
Within the Tides | 
