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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: 'You shall take this polished shield,' said Athene, 'and when
you come near her look not at her herself, but at her image
in the brass; so you may strike her safely. And when you
have struck off her head, wrap it, with your face turned
away, in the folds of the goat-skin on which the shield
hangs, the hide of Amaltheie, the nurse of the AEgis-holder.
So you will bring it safely back to me, and win to yourself
renown, and a place among the heroes who feast with the
Immortals upon the peak where no winds blow.'
Then Perseus said, 'I will go, though I die in going. But
how shall I cross the seas without a ship? And who will show
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