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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen: have sustained some severe shock to the nerves."
Austin took the manuscript, but never read it. Opening
the neat pages at haphazard his eye was caught by a word and a
phrase that followed it; and, sick at heart, with white lips and
a cold sweat pouring like water from his temples, he flung the
paper down.
"Take it away, Villiers, never speak of this again.
Are you made of stone, man? Why, the dread and horror of death
itself, the thoughts of the man who stands in the keen morning
air on the black platform, bound, the bell tolling in his ears,
and waits for the harsh rattle of the bolt, are as nothing
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