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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: distance and too deep the shadow of its under side for
me to distinguish any movement as of animal life.
Instantly a great curiosity was awakened within me.
The questions which the sight of this planet, so tanta-
lizingly close, raised in my mind were numerous and
unanswerable.
Was it inhabited?
If so, by what manner and form of creature?
Were its people as relatively diminutive as their little
world, or were they as disproportionately huge as the
lesser attraction of gravity upon the surface of their
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