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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Princess of Parms by Edgar Rice Burroughs: hairy face pressed close to mine before I knew that I was
even threatened.
What manner of thing was upon me I did not know, but
that it was large and heavy and many-legged I could feel.
My hands were at its throat before the fangs had a chance to
bury themselves in my neck, and slowly I forced the hairy face
from me and closed my fingers, vise-like, upon its windpipe.
Without sound we lay there, the beast exerting every effort
to reach me with those awful fangs, and I straining to
maintain my grip and choke the life from it as I kept it from
my throat. Slowly my arms gave to the unequal struggle,
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