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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: hung dependent heels and head below; and then, with the noise
of rending cloth, and followed by several pots, he dropped
upon the sod. Once more the bell was rung, and now with
furious and repeated peals. The desperate Challoner turned
his eyes on every side. They fell upon the ladder, and he
ran to it, and with strenuous but unavailing effort sought to
raise it from the ground. Suddenly the weight, which was
thus resisting his whole strength, began to lighten in his
hands; the ladder, like a thing of life, reared its bulk from
off the sod; and Challoner, leaping back with a cry of almost
superstitious terror, beheld the whole structure mount, foot
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