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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: fainting, white-armed, feminine voluptuousness?"
Maskull coolly drank another cup. "And why should she give all that
to a passerby?"
"Well, as a matter of fact, she hasn't it to give. No, what she will
give you, and what you'll accept from her, because you can't help it,
is - anguish, insanity, possibly death."
"You may be talking sense, but it sounds like raving to me. Why
should I accept insanity and death?"
"Because your passion will force you to."
"What about yourself?" Maskull asked, biting his nails.
"Oh, I have my male stones. I am immune."
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