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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer: The drive that night, though it divided the drably commonplace
from the wildly bizarre--though it was the bridge between the
ordinary and the outre--has left no impression upon my mind.
Into the heart of a weird mystery the cab bore me; and in reviewing
my memories of those days I wonder that the busy thoroughfares
through which we passed did not display before my eyes signs
and portents--warnings.
It was not so. I recall nothing of the route and little of import
that passed between us (we both were strangely silent, I think)
until we were come to our journey's end. Then:
"What's this?" muttered my friend hoarsely.
The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu | 
