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: stranger, but go away at once out of the land."
"Tonight? Where shall I go?"
"To Wombflash, where you will meet the deepest minds. I will put you
on the way."
He linked his arm in Maskull's, and they walked away into the night.
For a mile or more they skirted the edge of the precipice. The wind
was searching, and drove grit into their faces. Through the rifts of
the clouds, stars, faint and brilliant, appeared. Maskull saw no
familiar constellations. He wondered if the sun of earth was
visible, and if so which one it was.
They came to the head of a rough staircase, leading down the
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