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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: something new, he thought: extraordinary inhabitants. The idea took
shape in his mind to go there, and to travel as swiftly as possible,
it might even be feasible to get there before sunset . It was less
the mountains themselves that attracted him than the country which
lay beyond - the prospect of setting eyes on the blue sun, which he
judged to be the wonder of wonders in Tormance.
The direct route was over the hills, but that was out of the
question, because of the killing heat and the absence of shade. He
guessed, however, that the valley would not take him far out of his
way, and decided to keep to that for the time being, much as he hated
and feared it. Into the hotbed of life, therefore, he once more
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