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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Falk by Joseph Conrad: the air, ludicrous, sublimely imbecile and compre-
hensible.
And now he couldn't have her? No! That was
too much. After thinking too that . . . What
had he done? What was my advice? Take her by
force? No? Mustn't he? Who was there then
to kill him? For the first time I saw one of his fea-
tures move; a fighting teeth-baring curl of the lip.
. . . "Not Hermann, perhaps." He lost himself
in thought as though he had fallen out of the
world.
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