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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: onward. He frowned, shivered slightly, and got in beside Nightspore.
Krag clambered past them onto his pilot's seat. He threw the
flashlight through the open door, which was then carefully closed,
fastened, and screwed up.
He pulled the starting lever. The torpedo glided gently from its
platform, and passed rather slowly away from the tower, seaward. Its
speed increased sensibly, though not excessively, until the
approximate limits of the earth's atmosphere were reached. Krag then
released the speed valve, and the car sped on its way with a velocity
more nearly approaching that of thought than of light.
Maskull had no opportunity of examining through the crystal walls the
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