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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: two perched high above him, his red-rimmed eyes blazing
with insane hatred, and then he wound his trunk about
the bole of the tree, spread his giant feet wide apart
and tugged to uproot the jungle giant. A huge creature
was Tantor, an enormous bull in the full prime of all
his stupendous strength. Mightily he strove until
presently, to Tarzan's consternation, the great tree
gave slowly at the roots. The ground rose in little
mounds and ridges about the base of the bole, the tree
tilted--in another moment it would be uprooted and fall.
The ape-man whirled La to his back and just as the tree
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