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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: but I heard the sounds of conflict and thus knew that they
still fought--the thern for his life and the black for the
increased buoyancy that relief from the weight of even a single
body would give the craft.
Should Matai Shang die before I reached the deck my chances of
ever reaching it would be slender indeed, for the black dator need
but cut the rope above me to be freed from me forever, for the
vessel had drifted across the brink of a chasm into whose yawning
depths my body would drop to be crushed to a shapeless pulp should
Thurid reach the rope now.
The Warlord of Mars |
