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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: is neither good nor evil, but below them both; stronger than
good, greater than evil - all my life long I have adored and
served thee. Who has shed blood upon thine altars? whose
voice is broken with the singing of thy praises? whose limbs
are faint before their age with leaping in thy revels? Who
has slain the child of her body? I,' she cried, 'I,
Metamnbogu! By my own name, I name myself. I tear away the
veil. I would be served or perish. Hear me, slime of the
fat swamp, blackness of the thunder, venom of the serpent's
udder - hear or slay me! I would have two things, O
shapeless one, O horror of emptiness - two things, or die!
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