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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: And now--why am I writing you?
Heaven knows, unless it is that the persistent clicking
of that unfathomable enigma out there in the vast
silences of the Sahara has so wrought upon my nerves
that reason refuses longer to function sanely.
I cannot hear it now, yet I know that far away to the
south, all alone beneath the sands, it is still pounding
out its vain, frantic appeal.
It is maddening
It is your fault--I want you to release me from it.
Cable me at once, at my expense, that there was no
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