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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Art of Writing by Robert Louis Stevenson: good man, whose return to life would be hailed by the reader
and the other characters with gladness? This trenched upon
the Christian picture, and was dismissed. If the idea, then,
was to be of any use at all for me, I had to create a kind of
evil genius to his friends and family, take him through many
disappearances, and make this final restoration from the pit
of death, in the icy American wilderness, the last and the
grimmest of the series. I need not tell my brothers of the
craft that I was now in the most interesting moment of an
author's life; the hours that followed that night upon the
balcony, and the following nights and days, whether walking
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