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near our mountain cabin, in johorba, there was once a hotel called sator. it was open only in the winter for the skiing season. when you stood outside the hotel under a frigid, starry sky, you could smell cafeteria grease, wood - fire, and cedar the thumping from the disco club in the basement. for the rest of the year the hotel was vacant. one summer, when i was eleven, i broke into the hotel bar by cracking open a window - it took me an hour - and stole a bottle of blueberry juice. a guy who was a bartender there in the winter, but idled in the summer, caught me and blackmailed me, asking for money to tell my parents. they punished me, but that blueberry juice was the sweetest of potions. the hotels cleaning staff was a woman of undetermined body shape and age, named baja, who spent summer days sitting on the balcony, looking at nothing, always wearing a blue overcoat and a black scarf on her head, one of its corners covering her ear to keep it warm. she was, like a ghost, impervious to pain. she had an eternal toothache that she would not treat, the abscess swelling until it had devoured and destroyed one of her eyes. nobody ever saw her clean anything, though a friend of mine whod stayed at the hotel told me that baja had once walked into his room without knocking, looked around, and said, \why dont you clean this up? its disgusting.\ right behind the hotel, there was a crested boulder, which my sister and i would climb when there was nothing else to do. from the top, we could see the weekend - house cluster below and hear the buzzing of circular saws, the banging of hammers, the din of aspiration, for the weekenders were

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1. what does the following quotation suggest about the narrator?

\wed stand at the edge of the boulder, paths less emerging from the verdant wood beneath our feet, and wed look, and look, and look: our visual field had no limits, just as our life had no end.\
a. the narrator felt overwhelmed by nature.
b. the narrator sought out new experiences.
c. the narrator was worried about the future.
d. the narrator viewed the future as full of possibilities.
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Explanation:

The quote describes standing at the edge of a meadow with a vast visual field and a sense of limit - less life. This implies an open - ended view of the future full of possibilities. The narrator is not overwhelmed by nature, seeking new experiences, or worried about the future in the context of this quote.

Answer:

D. The narrator viewed the future as full of possibilities.