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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: lose his egotism, and to become free and thoughtful.
Now through the last trees he saw full daylight. Less than half a
mile separated him from the border of the forest, and, eager to
discover what lay beyond, he broke into a run. He heard the surf
louder. It was a peculiar hissing sound that could proceed only from
water, yet was unlike the sea. Almost immediately he came within
sight of an enormous horizon of dancing waves, which he knew must be
the Sinking Sea. He fell back into a quick walk, continuing to stare
hard. The wind that met him was hot, fresh and sweet
When he arrived at the final fringe of forest, which joined the wide
sands of the shore without any change of level, he leaned with his
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