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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs: myself upon a bed of grasses--a naked, primeval, cave man,
as savagely primitive as my prehistoric progenitors.
I awoke rested but hungry, and pushing the bowlder aside
crawled out upon the little rocky shelf which was my
front porch. Before me spread a small but beautiful valley,
through the center of which a clear and sparkling river
wound its way down to an inland sea, the blue waters
of which were just visible between the two mountain ranges
which embraced this little paradise. The sides of the
opposite hills were green with verdure, for a great forest
clothed them to the foot of the red and yellow and copper
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