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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Raucous-voiced birds of brilliant plumage screamed among
the branches while innumerable monkeys chattered and
scolded above him.
The forest teemed with life, and yet there was borne in upon
the ape-man a sense of unutterable loneliness, a sensation that
he never before had felt in his beloved jungles. There was
unreality in everything about him -- in the valley itself, lying
hidden and forgotten in what was supposed to be an arid
waste. The birds and the monkeys, while similar in type to
many with which he was familiar, were identical with none,
nor was the vegetation without its idiosyncrasies. It was as
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