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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: past familiarity with his surroundings. He blundered
on through the darkness as though he were traversing an
open plain under the brilliance of a noonday sun, and
suddenly there happened that which had to happen under
the circumstances of his rash advance.
He reached the brink of the well, stepped outward into
space, lunged forward, and shot downward into the inky
depths below. Still clutching his spear, he struck the
water, and sank beneath its surface, plumbing the
depths.
The fall had not injured him, and when he rose to the
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