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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: necessity for professional life. My friendship and their mutual animosity were
the two things that linked them in any way together. While they were very
often at my place, they made it a fastidious point to avoid each other on such
visits, though it was inevitable, under the circumstances, that they should
come upon each other occasionally.
On the day I have in recollection, Paul Tichlorne had been mooning all morning
in my study over a current scientific review. This left me free to my own
affairs, and I was out among my roses when Lloyd Inwood arrived. Clipping and
pruning and tacking the climbers on the porch, with my mouth full of nails,
and Lloyd following me about and lending a hand now and again, we fell to
discussing the mythical race of invisible people, that strange and vagrant
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