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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Iliad by Homer: Vulcan, imperishable, star-bespangled, fairest of the abodes in
heaven, a house of bronze wrought by the lame god's own hands.
She found him busy with his bellows, sweating and hard at work,
for he was making twenty tripods that were to stand by the wall
of his house, and he set wheels of gold under them all that they
might go of their own selves to the assemblies of the gods, and
come back again--marvels indeed to see. They were finished all
but the ears of cunning workmanship which yet remained to be
fixed to them: these he was now fixing, and he was hammering at
the rivets. While he was thus at work silver-footed Thetis came
to the house. Charis, of graceful head-dress, wife to the
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