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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells: now were the forces below the level of reason and ideas, organic
forces compounded of hate and desire, profound aboriginal urgencies.
He thought, indeed, very little as he lay in his berth or sulked on
deck; his mind lay waste under a pitiless invasion of exasperating
images that ever and again would so wring him that his muscles would
tighten and his hands clench or he would find himself restraining a
snarl, the threat of the beast, in his throat.
Amanda grew upon his imagination until she overshadowed the whole
world. She filled the skies. She bent over him and mocked him.
She became a mystery of passion and dark beauty. She was the sin of
the world. One breathed her in the winds of the sea. She had taken
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