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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: Inside the first box he found a second, and upon it the same
words:
"Open not."
Within the second box was another, and within that still another,
until there were seven in all, and on each was written the same
words:
"Open not."
Inside the seventh box was a roll of linen, and inside that a
bottle filled with nothing but blue smoke; and I wish that bottle
had burned the Tailor's fingers when he touched it.
"And is this all?" said the little Tailor, turning the bottle
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