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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad: I suppose Kurtz wanted an audience, because on a certain occasion,
when encamped in the forest, they had talked all night,
or more probably Kurtz had talked. `We talked of everything,'
he said, quite transported at the recollection. `I forgot
there was such a thing as sleep. The night did not seem to
last an hour. Everything! Everything! . . . Of love, too.'
`Ah, he talked to you of love!' I said, much amused.
`It isn't what you think,' he cried, almost passionately.
`It was in general. He made me see things--things.'
"He threw his arms up. We were on deck at the time, and the headman
of my wood-cutters, lounging near by, turned upon him his heavy and
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