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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: tantalizing sight that I had had of food almost within my grasp.
Once more darkness and silence enveloped me, a silence that was
broken only by a single mocking laugh.
For another day nothing occurred to break the monotony of my
imprisonment or relieve the suffering superinduced by hunger
and thirst. Slowly the pangs became less keen, as suffering
deaded the activity of certain nerves; and then the light
flashed on once again, and before me stood an array of new
and tempting dishes, with great bottles of clear water and
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