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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells: And those of a less simple sort will work in a bit of--what
is it?--eroticism."
He paused.
"Very likely these Martians will make pets of some of them;
train them to do tricks--who knows?--get sentimental over
the pet boy who grew up and had to be killed. And some,
maybe, they will train to hunt us."
"No," I cried, "that's impossible! No human being----"
"What's the good of going on with such lies?" said the
artilleryman. "There's men who'd do it cheerful. What non-
sense to pretend there isn't!"
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