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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: shall remember what it was like to live in this place, and
the long journey hither, age by age out of the south. We
shall remember the sacrifices we made and the crazy reasons
why we made them. We sowed our corn in blood here. We had
strange fancies about the stars. Those we brought with us out
of the south where the stars are brighter. And what like were
those wooden gods of ours? I don't remember. . . . But I
could easily persuade myself that I had been here before."
They stood on the crest of the ancient wall and the setting
sun cast long shadows of them athwart a field of springing
wheat.
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