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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the helpless creature that had dared to violate the
sanctuary of her deity. There should be no torture--
there should be instant death. No longer should the
defiler of the temple pollute the sight of the lord god
almighty. A single stroke of the heavy blade and then
the corpse to the flaming pyre without. The knife arm
stiffened ready for the downward plunge, and then La,
the woman, collapsed weakly upon the body of the man
she loved.
She ran her hands in mute caress over his naked flesh;
she covered his forehead, his eyes, his lips with hot
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