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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: a patch of the disguising red pigment as broad as my palm.
Beneath showed the tanned texture of my own white skin.
For a moment Thurid ceased speaking, to enhance, I suspect,
the dramatic effect of his disclosure. Then he resumed.
"Here, O Kulan Tith," he cried, "is he who has desecrated the
temples of the Gods of Mars, who has violated the persons of the
Holy Therns themselves and turned a world against its age-old
religion. Before you, in your power, Jeddak of Kaol, Defender of
the Holies, stands John Carter, Prince of Helium!"
The Warlord of Mars |
