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  Speaker 1: The Sea Wolf by Jack London, chapter thirty seven. At
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  Speaker 1: once we moved aboard the Ghost, occupying our old staterooms
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  Speaker 1: and cooking in the galley. The imprisonment of wolf Larsen
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  Speaker 1: had happened most opportunely, for what must have been the
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  Speaker 1: Indian summer of this high latitude was gone, and drizzling,
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  Speaker 1: stormy weather had set in. We were very comfortable, and
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  Speaker 1: the inadequate shears, with the foremasts suspended from them, gave
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  Speaker 1: a business like air to the schooner and a promise
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  Speaker 1: of departure. And now that we had Wolf Larsen in Irons,
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  Speaker 1: how little did we need it. Like his first attack,
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  Speaker 1: his second had been accompanied by serious disablement. Maud made
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  Speaker 1: the discovery in the afternoon while trying to give him nourishment.
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  Speaker 1: He had shown signs of consciousness, and she had spoken
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  Speaker 1: to him, eliciting nose thoughts. He was lying on his
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  Speaker 1: left side at the time and in evident pain. With
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  Speaker 1: a restless movement, he rolled his head around, clearing his
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  Speaker 1: left ear from the pillow against which it had been pressed.
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  Speaker 1: At once he heard an answer to her, and at
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  Speaker 1: once she came to me, pressing the pillow against his
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  Speaker 1: left ear. I asked him if he heard me, but
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  Speaker 1: he gave no sign. Removing the pillow and repeating your question,
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  Speaker 1: he answered promptly that he did. Do you know that
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  Speaker 1: you are deaf in the right ear, I asked, yes,
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  Speaker 1: he answered in a low, strong voice. And worse than that,
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  Speaker 1: my whole right side is affected. It seems asleep. I
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  Speaker 1: cannot move or more leg feigning again, I demanded angrily.
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  Speaker 1: He shook his head, his stern mouth shaping the strangest
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  Speaker 1: twisted smile. It was indeed a twisted smile, for it
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  Speaker 1: was on the left side, only the facial muscle of
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  Speaker 1: the right side moving not at all. That was the
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  Speaker 1: last play of the wolf, he said. I am paralyzed.
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  Speaker 1: I shall never walk again. Oh only on the other side,
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  Speaker 1: he added, as though divining the suspicious glance. I flung
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  Speaker 1: at his left leg, the knee of which had just
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  Speaker 1: then drawn up and elevated the blankets. It's unfortunate, he continued.
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  Speaker 1: I'd like to have done for you first hump, and
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  Speaker 1: I thought I had that much left in me. But why,
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  Speaker 1: I asked, partly in horror, partly out of curiosity. Again,
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  Speaker 1: his stern mouth framed the twisted smile as he said, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: just to be alive, to be living and doing, to
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  Speaker 1: be the biggest bit of the ferment to the end
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  Speaker 1: to eat you. But to die this way. He shrugged
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  Speaker 1: his shoulders, or attempted to shrug them rather, for the
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  Speaker 1: left shoulder alone moved the smile. The shrug was twisted.
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  Speaker 1: But how can you account for it? I asked? Where
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  Speaker 1: is the seat of your trouble? The brain? He said
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  Speaker 1: at once it was those cursed headaches brought it on, symptoms,
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  Speaker 1: I said. He nodded his head. There is no accounting
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  Speaker 1: for it. I was never sick in my life. Something's
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  Speaker 1: gone wrong with my brain. A cancer, a tumor, or
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  Speaker 1: something of that nature, a thing that devours and destroys.
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  Speaker 1: It's attacking my nerve centers, eating them up bit by bit,
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  Speaker 1: sell by sell from the pain, the motor centers too,
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  Speaker 1: I suggested, so it would seem. And the curse of
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  Speaker 1: it is that I must lie here conscious mentally, unimpaired,
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  Speaker 1: knowing that the lines are going down, breaking bit by
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  Speaker 1: bit communication with the world. I cannot see hearing and
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  Speaker 1: feeling or leaving me. At this rate, I shall soon
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  Speaker 1: cease to speak. Yet all the time, I shall be here, alive,
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  Speaker 1: active and powerless. When you say you are here, i'd
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  Speaker 1: suggest the likelihood of the soul, I said. Bosh was
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  Speaker 1: his retort. It simply means that in the attack on
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  Speaker 1: my brain, the higher psychical centers are untouched. I can remember,
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  Speaker 1: I can think and reason. When that goes, I go.
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  Speaker 1: I am not the soul. He broke out in mocking laughter,
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  Speaker 1: then turned his left ear to the pillow as a
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  Speaker 1: sign that he wished no further conversation. Maud and I
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  Speaker 1: went about our work, oppressed by the fearful fate which
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  Speaker 1: had overtaken him. How fearful we were, yet fully to
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  Speaker 1: realize there was the awfulness of retribution about it. Our
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  Speaker 1: thoughts were deep and solemn, and we spoke to each
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  Speaker 1: other scarcely above whispers you might over the handcuffs. He
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  Speaker 1: said that night, as we stood in consultation over him,
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  Speaker 1: It's dead safe. I'm a paralytic. Now. The next thing
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  Speaker 1: to watch out for is bed sores. He smiled his
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  Speaker 1: twisted smile, and Maud, her eyes wide with horror, was
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  Speaker 1: compelled to turn away her head. Do you know that
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  Speaker 1: your smile is crooked? I asked him, For I knew
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  Speaker 1: that she must attend him, and I wish to save
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  Speaker 1: her as much as possible. Then I shall smile no more,
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  Speaker 1: he said, calmly. I thought something was wrong. My right
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  Speaker 1: cheek has been numb all day. Yes, and I've had
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  Speaker 1: warnings of this for the last three days. My spells.
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  Speaker 1: My right side seemed going asleep, sometimes arm or hand,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes leg or foot. So my smile is crooked, he queried.
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  Speaker 1: A short while after. Well, consider henceforth that I smile
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  Speaker 1: internally with my soul. If you please my soul, consider
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  Speaker 1: that I am smiling now. And for the space of
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  Speaker 1: several minutes he lay there quiet, indulging his grotesque fancy.
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  Speaker 1: The man of him was not changed. It was the old, indomitable,
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  Speaker 1: terrible wolf Larsen, imprisoned somewhere within that flesh which had
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  Speaker 1: once been so invincible and splendid. Now it bound him
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  Speaker 1: with insentient fetters, walling his soul in darkness and silence,
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  Speaker 1: blocking it from the world, which to him had been
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  Speaker 1: a riot of action. No more would he conjugate the
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  Speaker 1: verb to do in every mood and tense. To be
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  Speaker 1: was all that remained to him, to be, as he
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  Speaker 1: had to find death, without movement, to will but not
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  Speaker 1: to execute, to think in reason and in the spirit
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  Speaker 1: of him, to be alive as ever, but in the
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  Speaker 1: flesh to be dead, quite dead. And yet though I
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  Speaker 1: even removed the handcuffs, we could not adjust ourselves to
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  Speaker 1: his condition. Our minds revolted to us. He was full
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  Speaker 1: of potentiality. We knew not what to expect of him next,
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  Speaker 1: what fearful thing, rising above the flesh, he might break
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  Speaker 1: out and do. Our experience warranted this state of mind,
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  Speaker 1: and we went about our work with anxiety always upon us.
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  Speaker 1: I had solved the problem which had arisen through the
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  Speaker 1: shortness of the shears. By means of the watch tackle,
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  Speaker 1: I had made a new one. I heaved the butt
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  Speaker 1: of the foremast across the rail, and then lowered it
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  Speaker 1: to the deck. Next, by means of the shears, I
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  Speaker 1: hoisted the main move on board. Its forty feet of
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  Speaker 1: length would supply the height necessary properly to swing the mast.
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  Speaker 1: By means of a secondary tackle, I had attached to
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  Speaker 1: the shears, slung the boom to a nearly perpendicular position,
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  Speaker 1: then lowered the butt to the deck, where to prevent slipping,
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  Speaker 1: I spiked great cleats around it the single block of
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  Speaker 1: my original shears tackle I had attached to the end
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  Speaker 1: of the boom. Thus, by carrying this tackle to the windlass,
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  Speaker 1: I could raise and lower the end of the boom
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  Speaker 1: at will, the butt always remaining stationary, and by means
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  Speaker 1: of guys, I could swing the boom from side to
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  Speaker 1: side to the end of the boom. I had likewise
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  Speaker 1: rigged a hoisting tackle, And when the whole arrangement was completed,
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  Speaker 1: I could not but be startled by the power and
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  Speaker 1: latitude it gave me. Of course, two days work was
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  Speaker 1: required for the accomplishment of this part of my task,
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  Speaker 1: and it was not till the morning of the third
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  Speaker 1: day that I swung the foremast from the deck and
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  Speaker 1: proceeded to square its butt to fit the step. Here
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  Speaker 1: I was especially awkward. I saw and chopped and chiseled
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  Speaker 1: the weathered wood till it had the appearance of having
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  Speaker 1: been gnawed by some gigantic mouse. But it fitted. It
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  Speaker 1: will work. I know it will work, I cried, Do
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  Speaker 1: you know doctor Jordan's final test of truth? Maud asked.
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  Speaker 1: I shook my head and paused in the act of
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  Speaker 1: dislodging the shavings which had drifted down my neck. Can
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  Speaker 1: we make it work? Can we trust our lives to it?
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  Speaker 1: Is the test? He is a favorite of yours, I said.
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  Speaker 1: When I dismantled my old pantheon and cast out Napoleon
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  Speaker 1: and Caesar and their fellows, I straightway erected a new pantheon,
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  Speaker 1: she answered, gravely, and the first I installed as Doctor Jordan,
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  Speaker 1: a modern hero, and a greater Because modern, she added,
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  Speaker 1: how can the old world heroes compare with ours? I
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  Speaker 1: shook my head. We were too much alive in many things.
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  Speaker 1: For argument, Our points of view and outlook on life,
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  Speaker 1: at least were very alike. For a pair of critics,
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  Speaker 1: we agree famously. I laughed, and as Shipwright and Able assisted,
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  Speaker 1: she laughed back. But there was little time for laughter
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  Speaker 1: in those days, one of our heavy work, and of
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  Speaker 1: the awfulness of wolf Larsen's living death. He had received
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  Speaker 1: another stroke. He had lost his voice, or he was
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  Speaker 1: losing it. He had only intermittent use of it. As
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  Speaker 1: he phrased it, the wires were like the stock market,
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  Speaker 1: now up, now down. Occasionally the wires were up, and
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  Speaker 1: he spoke as well as ever, though slowly and heavily.
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  Speaker 1: Then speech would suddenly desert him in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: a sentence, perhaps, and for hours sometimes we would wait
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  Speaker 1: for the connection to be re established. He complained of
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  Speaker 1: great pain in his head, and it was during the
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  Speaker 1: period that he arranged a system of communication against the
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  Speaker 1: time when speech should leave him. Altogether one pressure of
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  Speaker 1: the hand for yes, two for no. It was well
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  Speaker 1: that it was arranged, for by evening his voice had
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  Speaker 1: gone from him by hand pressures. After that he answered
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  Speaker 1: our questions, and when he wished to speak, he scrawled
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  Speaker 1: his thoughts with his left hand, quite legibly on a
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  Speaker 1: sheet of paper. The fierce winter had now descended upon us.
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  Speaker 1: Gale followed Gale with snow and sleet and rain. The
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  Speaker 1: seals had started on their great southern migration, and the
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  Speaker 1: rookery was practically deserted. I worked feverishly in spite of
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  Speaker 1: the bad weather and of the wind, which especially hindered me.
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  Speaker 1: I was on deck from daylight till dark, and making
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  Speaker 1: substantial progress. I profited by my lesson learned through raising
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  Speaker 1: the shears and then climbing them to attach the guys
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  Speaker 1: to the top of the foremast, which was just lifted
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  Speaker 1: conveniently from the deck. I attached the rigging stays and
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  Speaker 1: throat and peak halliards. As usual. I had underrated the
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  Speaker 1: amount of work involved in this portion of the task,
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  Speaker 1: and two long days were necessary to complete it. And
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  Speaker 1: there was so much yet to be done, the sales,
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  Speaker 1: for instance, which practically had to be made over. While
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  Speaker 1: I toiled at rigging the foremast, Mauds sewed on canvas,
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  Speaker 1: ready always to drop everything and come to my assistance
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  Speaker 1: when more hands than two were required. The canvas was
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  Speaker 1: heavy and hard, and she sewed with the regular sailor's
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  Speaker 1: palm and three cornered sail needle. Her hands were soon
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  Speaker 1: sadly blistered, but she struggled bravely on and in addition
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  Speaker 1: doing the cooking and taking care of the sick man
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  Speaker 1: a fig for superstition. I sat on Friday morning that
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  Speaker 1: mast goes in. Today. Everything was ready for the attempt.
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  Speaker 1: Carrying the boom tackle to the windlass. I hoisted the
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  Speaker 1: mast nearly clear of the deck, making this tackle fast.
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  Speaker 1: I took to the windlass the shear's tackle, which was
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  Speaker 1: connected with the end of the boom, and with a
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  Speaker 1: few turns had the mast perpendicular and clear. Maud clapped
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  Speaker 1: her hands the instant she was relieved from holding the turn, crying,
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  Speaker 1: it works, it works, We'll trust our lives to it.
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  Speaker 1: Then she assumed a rueful expression. It's not over the hole,
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  Speaker 1: she added, Will you have to begin all over? I
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  Speaker 1: smiled in superior fashion, and slacking off on one of
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  Speaker 1: the boom guys and taking in on the other, swung
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  Speaker 1: the mast perfectly in the center of the deck. Still
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  Speaker 1: it was not over the hole. Again the rueful expression
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  Speaker 1: came on her face, and again I smiled in superior way,
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  Speaker 1: slacking away on the boom tackle and hoisting an equivalent
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  Speaker 1: amount on the shear's tackle. I brought the butt of
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  Speaker 1: the mast into position directly over the hole in the deck.
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  Speaker 1: Then I gave Maud careful instructions for lowering away and
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  Speaker 1: went into the hole to the step on the schooner's bottom.
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  Speaker 1: I called to her, and the mast moved easily and
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  Speaker 1: accurately straight toward the square hole of the step. The
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  Speaker 1: square butt descended, but as it descended it slowly twisted
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  Speaker 1: so that square would not fit into square. But I
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  Speaker 1: had not even a moment's in decision, calling to Maud
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  Speaker 1: to cease lowering, I went on deck and made the
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  Speaker 1: watch tackle fast to the mast with a rolling hitch.
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  Speaker 1: I left Maud to pull on it while I went below.
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  Speaker 1: By the light of the lantern, I saw the butt
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  Speaker 1: twist slowly around till its sides coincided with the sides
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  Speaker 1: of the step. Maud made fast and returned to the windlass. Slowly,
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  Speaker 1: the butt descended the several intervening inches at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: slightly twisting again. Again, Maud rectified the twist with the
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  Speaker 1: watch tackle, and again she lowered away from the windlass.
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  Speaker 1: Square fitted into square, the mast was stepped. I raised
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  Speaker 1: a shout, and she ran down to sea. In the
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  Speaker 1: yellow lantern light, we peered at what we had accomplished.
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  Speaker 1: We looked at each other, and our hands felt their
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  Speaker 1: way and clasped. The eyes of both of us, I
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  Speaker 1: think were moist with the joy of success. It was
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  Speaker 1: done so easily, after all, I remarked, All the work
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  Speaker 1: was in the preparation, and all the wonder in the completion.
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  Speaker 1: Maud added, I could scarcely bring myself to realize that
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  Speaker 1: that great mast is really up, and in that you
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  Speaker 1: have lifted it from the water, swung it through the air,
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  Speaker 1: and deposited it here where it belongs. It is a
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  Speaker 1: titan's task, and they made themselves many inventions. I began merrily,
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  Speaker 1: then paused to sniff the air. I looked hastily at
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  Speaker 1: the lantern. It was not smoking. Again, I sniffed, something
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  Speaker 1: is burning, Maud said, with sudden conviction. We sprang together
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  Speaker 1: for the latter, but I raced past her to the deck.
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  Speaker 1: A dense volume of smoke was pouring out of the
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  Speaker 1: steerage companionway. The wolf is not yet dead, I muttered
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  Speaker 1: to myself as I sprang down through the smoke. It
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  Speaker 1: was so thick in the confined space that I was
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  Speaker 1: compelled to feel my way, and so potent was the
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  Speaker 1: spell of wolf Larsen on my imagination, I was quite
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  Speaker 1: prepared for the helpless giant to grip my neck in
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  Speaker 1: a stranglehold. I hesitated the desire to race back and
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  Speaker 1: up the steps to the deck, almost overpowering me. Then
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  Speaker 1: I recollected Maud, the vision of her as I had
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  Speaker 1: last seen her in the lantern light of the schooner's hold.
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  Speaker 1: Her brown eyes, warm and moistless. Joy flashed before me,
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  Speaker 1: and I knew that I could not go back. I
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  Speaker 1: was choking and suffocating by the time I reached wolf
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  Speaker 1: Larsen's bunk. I reached my hand and felt for his.
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  Speaker 1: He was lying motionless, but moved slightly at the touch
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  Speaker 1: of my hand. I felt over and under his blankets.
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  Speaker 1: There was no warmth, no sign of fire. Yet that
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  Speaker 1: smoke which blinded me and made me coughing gas must
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  Speaker 1: have a source. I lost my head temporarily and dashed
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  Speaker 1: frantically about the steerage. A collision with the table partially
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  Speaker 1: knocked a wind from my body and brought me to myself.
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  Speaker 1: I reasoned that a helpless man could start a fire
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  Speaker 1: only nearer to where he lay. I returned to wolf
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  Speaker 1: Larsen's bunk. There I encountered Maud. How long she had
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  Speaker 1: been there In that suffocating atmosphere, I could not guess.
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  Speaker 1: Go up on deck. I commanded peremptorily, but humphrey. She
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  Speaker 1: began to protest in a queer husky voice. Please please,
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  Speaker 1: I shouted at her harshly. She drew away obediently, and
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  Speaker 1: then I thought, why if she cannot find the steps.
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  Speaker 1: I started after her to stop at the foot of
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  Speaker 1: the companionway. Perhaps she had gone up. As I stood there, hesitant,
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  Speaker 1: I heard her cry softly oh, humphrey, I am lost.
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  Speaker 1: I found her fumbling at the wall of the after
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  Speaker 1: bulkhead and half leading her, half carrying her. I took
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  Speaker 1: her up the companionway. The pure air was like nectar.
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  Speaker 1: Maud was only faint and dizzy, and I left her
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  Speaker 1: lying on the deck when I took my second plunge below.
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  Speaker 1: The source of the smoke must be very close to
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  Speaker 1: wulf Larsen. My mind was made up to this, and
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  Speaker 1: I went straight to his bunk. As I felt about
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  Speaker 1: among his blankets, something hot fell on the back of
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  Speaker 1: my hand. It burned me, and I jerked my hand away.
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  Speaker 1: Then I understood, through the cracks in the bottom of
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  Speaker 1: the upper bunk, he had set fire to the mattress.
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  Speaker 1: He still retained sufficient use of his left arm to
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  Speaker 1: do this. The damp straw of the mattress fired from
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  Speaker 1: beneath and denied air, had been smoldering all the while.
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  Speaker 1: As I dragged the mattress out of the bunk, it
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  Speaker 1: seemed to disintegrate in mid air at the same time
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  Speaker 1: bursting into flames. I beat out the burning remnants of
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  Speaker 1: straw in the bunk, then made a dash for the
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  Speaker 1: deck for fresh air. Several buckets of water sufficed to
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  Speaker 1: put out the burning mattress in the middle of the
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  Speaker 1: steerage floor, and ten minutes later, when the smoke had
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  Speaker 1: fairly cleared, I allowed mud to come below. Wolf Larsen
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  Speaker 1: was unconscious, but it was as a matter of minutes
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  Speaker 1: for the fresh air to restore him. We were working
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  Speaker 1: over him. However, when he signed for paper and pencil, pray,
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  Speaker 1: do not interrupt me, he wrote, I am smiling. I
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  Speaker 1: am still a bit of the ferment, you see, he wrote.
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  Speaker 1: A little later, I'm glad you are as small a
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  Speaker 1: bit as you are, I said, thank you, he wrote,
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  Speaker 1: But just think of how much smaller I shall be
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  Speaker 1: before I die. And yet I am all here, hump,
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  Speaker 1: he wrote, with a final flourish. I can think more
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  Speaker 1: clearly than ever in my life before. Nothing to disturb me.
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  Speaker 1: Concentration is perfect. I am all here and more than here.
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  Speaker 1: It was like a message from the night of the grave.
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  Speaker 1: For this man's body had become his mausoleum, and there
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  Speaker 1: in so strange a sepulcher, his spirit fluttered and lived.
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  Speaker 1: It would flutter and live till the last line of
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  Speaker 1: communication was broken. And after that, who was to say
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  Speaker 1: how much longer it might continue to flutter and live.
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  Speaker 1: End of Chapter thirty seven,