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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: in such a damnable fashion?"
"You were strong enough to get through alone."
"So it turned out, but how were you to know? .... Anyway, you've
timed it well. It seems I am to die today."
Krag scowled. "You will die this morning."
"If I am to, I shall. But where have you heard it from?"
"You are ripe for it. You have run through the gamut. What else is
there to live for?"
"Nothing," said Maskull, uttering a short laugh. "I am quite ready.
I have failed in everything. I only wondered how you knew.... So now
you've come to rejoin me. Where are we going?"
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