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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Witch, et. al by Anton Chekhov: terribly ill as you are you should be here in a steamer where it
is so hot and stifling and we are always being tossed up and
down, where, in fact, everything threatens you with death; now it
is all clear to me. . . . Yes. . . . Your doctors put you on the
steamer to get rid of you. They get sick of looking after poor
brutes like you. . . . You don't pay them anything, they have a
bother with you, and you damage their records with your deaths --
so, of course, you are brutes! It's not difficult to get rid of
you. . . . All that is necessary is, in the first place, to have
no conscience or humanity, and, secondly, to deceive the steamer
authorities. The first condition need hardly be considered, in
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