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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: is watching over me. That is my 'luck.' .. . But what is Surtur in
this world? ... How is he able to protect me against the blind and
ungovernable forces of nature? Is he stronger than Nature? .. ."
Hungry as he was for food, he was hungrier still for human society,
for he wished to inquire about all these things. He asked himself
which way he should turn his steps. There were only two ways; along
the shore, either east or west. The nearest creek lay to the east,
cutting the sands about a mile away. He walked toward it.
The forest face was forbidding and enormously high. It was so
squarely turned to the sea that it looked as though it had been
planed by tools. Maskull strode along in the shade of the trees, but
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