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  <p>[...] from this point of view, when you contemplate what to do about
  outliers, you’re like Marlow, in “Heart of Darkness,” when he is
  travelling up-river to find Kurtz. “Watching a coast as it slips by
  the ship,” Conrad writes,</p>
  
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    <p>is like thinking about an enigma. There it is before you—smiling,
    frowning, inviting, grand, mean, insipid, or savage, and always mute
    with an air of whispering, ‘Come and find out.’</p>
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