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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Chita: A Memory of Last Island by Lafcadio Hearn: burrowing of the crawfish it had sunk greatly on one side,
tilting as if about to fall. Out from its zigzag fissurings of
brick and plaster, a sinister voice seemed to come:--"Go thou and
do likewise! ... Earth groans with her burthen even now,--the
burthen of Man: she holds no place for thee!"
VIII.
... That voice pursued him into the darkness of his chilly
room,--haunted him in the silence of his lodging. And then began
within the man that ghostly struggle between courage and despair,
between patient reason and mad revolt, between weakness and
force, between darkness and light, which all sensitive and
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