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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from 'Twixt Land & Sea by Joseph Conrad: ashore as soon as possible.
"Yes, sir. Ready at eight, sir. There's a gentleman from the
shore waiting to speak to you, sir."
This statement was curiously slurred over. I dragged the shirt
violently over my head and emerged staring.
"So early!" I cried. "Who's he? What does he want?"
On coming in from sea one has to pick up the conditions of an
utterly unrelated existence. Every little event at first has the
peculiar emphasis of novelty. I was greatly surprised by that
early caller; but there was no reason for my steward to look so
particularly foolish.
'Twixt Land & Sea | 
