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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: the heat of the day he lay up under the shade of a tree
near the ruins of his burned barns. His eyes wandered
out across the plain toward the forest, and a longing
for the pleasures of its mysterious depths possessed
his thoughts for a considerable time. With the next
sun he would cross the open and enter the forest! There
was no hurry--there lay before him an endless vista of
tomorrows with naught to fill them but the satisfying
of the appetites and caprices of the moment.
The ape-man's mind was untroubled by regret for the
past, or aspiration for the future. He could lie at
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