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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne: six months ago, -- these men of traffic, who seemed to occupy so
important a position in the world -- how little time has it
required to disconnect me from them all, not merely in act, but
recollection It is with an effort that
I recall the figures and appellations of these few. Soon,
likewise, my old native town will loom upon me through the haze
of memory, a mist brooding over and around it; as if it were no
portion of the real earth, but an overgrown village in
cloud-land, with only imaginary inhabitants to people its wooden
houses and walk its homely lanes, and the unpicturesque prolixity
The Scarlet Letter |
