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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: At length the apes spied the huddled knot of terror-stricken
maidens and with demoniacal shrieks of bestial frenzy,
charged upon them.
A wave of mad fury surged over me. The cruel cowardliness
of the power-drunk creature whose malignant mind conceived
such frightful forms of torture stirred to their uttermost
depths my resentment and my manhood. The blood-red haze
that presaged death to my foes swam before my eyes.
The guard lolled before the unbarred gate of the cage
which confined me. What need of bars, indeed, to keep
those poor victims from rushing into the arena which the
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