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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: done in the pits of the Warhoons, I took a new, firm hold
upon my reason and forced it back into the channels of sanity.
By sheer will-power I regained control over my tottering mentality,
and so successful was I that the next time that the light came I sat
quite still and looked indifferently at the fresh and tempting food
almost within my reach. Glad I was that I had done so, for it gave me
an opportunity to solve the seeming mystery of those vanishing banquets.
As I made no move to reach the food, the torturers left the light
turned on in the hope that at last I could refrain no longer from
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