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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: supposes, in either case he will enjoy his chimera while it lasts.
The influence of this giddy air displays itself in many secondary
ways. A certain sort of laboured pleasantry has already been
recognised, and may perhaps have been remarked in these papers, as a
sort peculiar to that climate. People utter their judgments with a
cannonade of syllables; a big word is as good as a meal to them; and
the turn of a phrase goes further than humour or wisdom. By the
professional writer many sad vicissitudes have to be undergone. At
first he cannot write at all. The heart, it appears, is unequal to
the pressure of business, and the brain, left without nourishment,
goes into a mild decline. Next, some power of work returns to him,
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