Typescript Form for Miscue Analysis
Book Title: Water Dance
Author: Thomas Locker
1. Some people say that I am one thing.
2. Others say that I am many.
3. Ever since the world began I have been moving in an endless circle.
4. Sometimes I fall from the sky.
5. I am the rain.
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6. Sometimes I cascade.
7. I tumble down, down, over the moss-covered rocks, through the forest shadows.
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8. I am the mountain stream.
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9. At the foot of the mountains, I leap from a stone cliff.
10. Spiraling.
11. Plunging.
12. I am the waterfall.
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13. In the shadows of the mountain, I am still and deep.
14. I fill and overflow.
15. I am the lake.
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16. I wind through broad, golden valleys joined by streams, joined by creeks.
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17. I grow even wider, broader and deeper.
18. I am the river.
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19. I pass through a gateway of high stone palisades, leaving the land behind.
20. Cool silver moonlight sparkles and dances on my waves.
21. I am the sea.
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22. Drawn upward by warm sunlight, in white-silver veils I rise into the air.
23. I disappear.
24. I am the mist.
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25. In thousands of shapes I reappear high above the earth in the blue sky.
26. I float.
27. I drift.
28. I am the clouds.
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29. Carried by winds from distant seas I move, growing heavier, growing darker, returning.
30. I am the storm front.
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31. At the wall of the mountains, I rise up as gleaming power-filled towers in the darkened sky.
32. I am the thunderhead.
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33. I blind the sky with lightning.
34. The earth trembles with my thunder.
35. I rage.
36. I drench the mountainside.
37. I am the storm.
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38. Storms come.
39. Storms pass.
40. I am countless droplets of rain left floating in the silent air.
41. I reflect all the colors of sunlight.
42. I am the rainbow.
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43. I am one thing.
44. I am many things.
45. I am water.
46. This is my dance through our world.
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