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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Princess of Parms by Edgar Rice Burroughs: no opening through them.
The top floor was alight, and filled with soldiers engaged
in the pastimes of their kind; I could not, therefore, reach
the roof through the building.
There was one slight, desperate chance, and that I decided
I must take--it was for Dejah Thoris, and no man has lived
who would not risk a thousand deaths for such as she.
Clinging to the wall with my feet and one hand, I unloosened
one of the long leather straps of my trappings at the end
of which dangled a great hook by which air sailors are hung
to the sides and bottoms of their craft for various purposes
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