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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from 'Twixt Land & Sea by Joseph Conrad: "She's ashore already," he wailed, trying to tear himself away.
"Is she? . . . Keep good full there!"
"Good full, sir," cried the helmsman in a frightened, thin, child-
like voice.
I hadn't let go the mate's arm and went on shaking it. "Ready
about, do you hear? You go forward" - shake - "and stop there" -
shake - "and hold your noise" - shake - "and see these head-sheets
properly overhauled" - shake, shake - shake.
And all the time I dared not look toward the land lest my heart
should fail me. I released my grip at last and he ran forward as
if fleeing for dear life.
'Twixt Land & Sea | 
