Answer:
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Explanation:
According to a source on the internet, the theme that addressed in both excerpts would be the last choice - Reality can be inexplicably cruel and unfair.
This is further strengthened by the passage - How stunned I was, for example, to discover another time outside time, a universe parallel to this one, a creation within Creation, with its own laws, customs structures, and language - as if reality is deceiving and being unfair to the person.
Answer: A
Personally I would say the answer is A, but the definition of slender is literally "gracefully thin," so you could argue it's both A and B. Maybe it's something to take up with your teacher.
It shows the connection between ideas, sentences, or paragraphs. So the first one :)