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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert: horns of brass. Two lateral staircases led to its flattened summit;
the stones of it could not be seen; it was like a mountain of heaped
cinders, and something indistinct was slowly smoking at the top of it.
Then further back, higher than the candelabrum, and much higher than
the altar, rose the Moloch, all of iron, and with gaping apertures in
his human breast. His outspread wings were stretched upon the wall,
his tapering hands reached down to the ground; three black stones
bordered by yellow circles represented three eyeballs on his brow, and
his bull's head was raised with a terrible effort as if in order to
bellow.
Ebony stools were ranged round the apartment. Behind each of them was
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