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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton: hand, when he was down in Devonshire recovering from a previous
heart attack. Just a note! But it tells his whole history.
There are years of patient scornful persistence in every line. A
man who had swum with the current could never have learned that
mighty up-stream stroke. . . .
"I turned back to my work, and went on groping and muddling; then
I looked at the donkey again. I saw that, when Stroud laid in
the first stroke, he knew just what the end would be. He had
possessed his subject, absorbed it, recreated it. When had I
done that with any of my things? They hadn't been born of me--I
had just adopted them. . . .
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