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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: sprang for us. With frenzied insistence I continued to press
the little button which should have sent us racing out into
space, but still the vessel refused to budge. Then it came to
me--the reason that she would not rise.
We had stumbled upon a two-man flier. Its ray tanks
were charged only with sufficient repulsive energy to lift
two ordinary men. The Thark's great weight was anchoring
us to our doom.
The blacks were nearly upon us. There was not an instant
to be lost in hesitation or doubt.
I pressed the button far in and locked it. Then I set the
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