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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad: shovel my stuff in heaps at the corners of the streets if I had
enough for that; and as I haven't, I do my best by perfecting a
really dependable detonator."
Ossipon, who had been mentally swimming in deep waters, seized upon
the last word as if it were a saving plank.
"Yes. Your detonators. I shouldn't wonder if it weren't one of
your detonators that made a clean sweep of the man in the park."
A shade of vexation darkened the determined sallow face confronting
Ossipon.
"My difficulty consists precisely in experimenting practically with
the various kinds. They must be tried after all. Besides - "
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