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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: impenetrable, palpable, and stifling. An immense cloud had come
up running over the heavens, as if looking for the little craft,
and now hung over it, arrested. To the south there was a livid
trembling gleam, faint and sad, like a vanishing memory of
destroyed starlight. To the north, as if to prove the impossible,
an incredibly blacker patch outlined on the tremendous blackness
of the sky the heart of the coming squall. The glimmers in the
water had gone out and the invisible sea all around lay mute and
still as if it had died suddenly of fright.
Carter could see nothing. He felt about him people moving; he
heard them in the darkness whispering faintly as if they had been
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