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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling: 'Even then I did not understand, till I saw that - that no man
stepped on my shadow; and I knew that they thought me to be a
God, like the God Tyr, who gave his right hand to conquer a
Great Beast.'
'By the Fire in the Belly of the Flint was that so?' Puck
rapped out.
'By my Knife and the Naked Chalk, so it was! They made way
for my shadow as though it had been a Priestess walking to the
Barrows of the Dead. I was afraid. I said to myself, "My Mother
and my Maiden will know I am not Tyr." But still I was afraid,
with the fear of a man who falls into a steep flint-pit while he runs,
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