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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: toward a point where he had told me lay the nearest waterway.
My only food consisted of vegetable milk from the
plants which gave so bounteously of this priceless fluid.
Through two long weeks I wandered, stumbling through
the nights guided only by the stars and hiding during the
days behind some protruding rock or among the occasional
hills I traversed. Several times I was attacked by wild beasts;
strange, uncouth monstrosities that leaped upon me in the
dark, so that I had ever to grasp my long-sword in my hand
that I might be ready for them. Usually my strange, newly
acquired telepathic power warned me in ample time, but
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