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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad: the fore end of the ship. Only as I passed the door of the forecastle,
I heard a deep, quiet, trustful sigh of some sleeper inside.
And suddenly I rejoiced in the great security of the sea as compared
with the unrest of the land, in my choice of that untempted life
presenting no disquieting problems, invested with an elementary
moral beauty by the absolute straightforwardness of its appeal
and by the singleness of its purpose.
The riding light in the forerigging burned with a clear, untroubled,
as if symbolic, flame, confident and bright in the mysterious
shades of the night. Passing on my way aft along the other side
of the ship, I observed that the rope side ladder, put over, no doubt,
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