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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: an opportunity for a good look at my cabin. And then I could at
last shut, with a clear conscience, the door of my stateroom and
get my double back into the recessed part. There was nothing else
for it. He had to sit still on a small folding stool, half
smothered by the heavy coats hanging there. We listened to the
steward going into the bath-room out of the saloon, filling the
water-bottles there, scrubbing the bath, setting things to rights,
whisk, bang, clatter - out again into the saloon - turn the key -
click. Such was my scheme for keeping my second self invisible.
Nothing better could be contrived under the circumstances. And
there we sat; I at my writing-desk ready to appear busy with some
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