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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn: heads, sprang at Kwairyo. But the strong priest had already armed himself
by plucking up a young tree; and with that tree he struck the heads as they
came,-- knocking them from him with tremendous blows. Four of them fled
away. But the head of the aruji, though battered again and again,
desperately continued to bound at the priest, and at last caught him by the
left sleeve of his robe. Kwairyo, however, as quickly gripped the head by
its topknot, and repeatedly struck it. It did not release its hold; but it
uttered a long moan, and thereafter ceased to struggle. It was dead. But
its teeth still held the sleeve; and, for all his great strength, Kwairyo
could not force open the jaws.
With the head still hanging to his sleeve he went back to the house, and
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