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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert: ones which in Chanaanitish figures expressed the number thirteen. Then
he counted as far as the thirteenth of the brass plates and again
raised his ample sleeve; and with his right hand stretched out he read
other more complicated lines on his arm, at the same time moving his
fingers daintily about like one playing on a lyre. At last he struck
seven blows with his thumb, and an entire section of the wall turned
about in a single block.
It served to conceal a sort of cellar containing mysterious things
which had no name and were of incalculable value. Hamilcar went down
the three steps, took up a llama's skin which was floating on a black
liquid in a silver vat, and then re-ascended.
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