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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: into the cold of the morning. A glance showed him that his house
was still there, and he congratulated himself on his foresight in
hauling it out of harm's way, for the increasing light showed him
a confused wrack of drift-logs, half-stranded on the muddy flat,
interlocked into a shapeless raft by their branches, tossing to
and fro and grinding together in the eddy caused by the meeting
currents of the two branches of the river. Mahmat walked down to
the water's edge to examine the rattan moorings of his house just
as the sun cleared the trees of the forest on the opposite shore.
As he bent over the fastenings he glanced again carelessly at the
unquiet jumble of logs and saw there something that caused him to
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