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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: was entirely toothless. On either side of her thin, hawk-like
nose her eyes burned from the depths of horribly sunken
sockets. The skin of her face was seamed and creased with
a million deepcut furrows. Her body was as wrinkled as her
face, and as repulsive.
Emaciated arms and legs attached to a torso which seemed
to be mostly distorted abdomen completed the "holy vision
of her radiant beauty."
Surrounding her were a number of female slaves, among
them Phaidor, white and trembling.
"This is the man who slew seven of the First Born and, bare-handed,
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