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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert: nauseous than the exhalation from a corpse. Two coals seemed to burn
in the place of his eyes, which had lost their eyebrows; a mass of
wrinkled skin hung over his forehead; both his ears stood out from his
head and were beginning to increase in size; and the deep lines
forming semicircles round his nostrils gave him a strange and
terrifying appearance, the look of a wild beast. His unnatural voice
was like a roar; he said:
"Perhaps you are right, Demonades. In fact there are many ulcers here
which have closed. I feel robust. Here! look how I am eating!"
And less from greediness than from ostentation, and the desire to
prove to himself that he was in good health, he cut into the
Salammbo | 
