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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn: down at the feet of the soba-seller, crying out, "Ah! -- aa!! -- aa!!!"...
"Kore! kore!" (3) roughly exclaimed the soba-man. "Here! what is the
matter with you? Anybody hurt you?"
"No -- nobody hurt me," panted the other,-- "only... Ah! -- aa!"
"-- Only scared you?" queried the peddler, unsympathetically. "Robbers?"
"Not robbers,-- not robbers," gasped the terrified man... "I saw... I saw
a woman -- by the moat; -- and she showed me... Ah! I cannot tell you what
she showed me!"...
"He! (4) Was it anything like THIS that she showed you?" cried the
soba-man, stroking his own face --which therewith became like unto an
Egg... And, simultaneously, the light went out.
Kwaidan | 
