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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: them, began faintly to illuminate the floating island and the glassy
sea around it.
"Do all men escape from that ghastly world, or only I, and a few like
me?" asked Nightspore.
"If all escaped, I shouldn't sweat, my friend... There's hard work,
and anguish, and the risk of total death, waiting for us yonder."
Nightspore's heart sank. "Have I not yet finished, then?"
"If you wish it. You have got through. But will you wish it?"
The drumming grew loud and painful. The light resolved itself into a
tiny oblong of mysterious brightness in a huge wall of night. Krag's
grim and rocklike features were revealed.
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