The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: shirt and breeches. His face was stem, yellow, and ugly. He eyed
Maskull without smiling or getting up.
"Where in the devil's name have you come from, Krag?"
"The great point is, I am here."
"Where's Nightspore?"
"Not far away."
"It seems a hundred years since I saw you. Why did you two leave me
in such a damnable fashion?"
"You were strong enough to get through alone."
"So it turned out, but how were you to know? .... Anyway, you've
timed it well. It seems I am to die today."
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