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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: Pelias. And when he came in Pelias sat by the hearth,
crippled and blind with age; while opposite him sat AEson,
Jason's father, crippled and blind likewise; and the two old
men's heads shook together as they tried to warm themselves
before the fire.
And Jason fell down at his father's knees, and wept, and
called him by his name. And the old man stretched his hands
out, and felt him, and said, 'Do not mock me, young hero. My
son Jason is dead long ago at sea.'
'I am your own son Jason, whom you trusted to the Centaur
upon Pelion; and I have brought home the golden fleece, and a
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