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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Princess of Parms by Edgar Rice Burroughs: neither glory nor profit in pitting my relatively puny strength
against the iron muscles and brutal ferocity of this enraged
denizen of an unknown world; in fact, the only outcome
of such an encounter, so far as I might be concerned,
seemed sudden death.
I was standing near the window and I knew that once in
the street I might gain the plaza and safety before the creature
could overtake me; at least there was a chance for safety in
flight, against almost certain death should I remain and fight
however desperately.
It is true I held the cudgel, but what could I do with it
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