The sentence that best paraphrases the first sentence of the excerpt is "You aren't telling me anything I don't know". This is because the narrator uses the metaphor of "rousing me from a deep sleep" as saying that he was aware of the situation that was going on, it wasn't that he didn't know about it.
Use it as a way to give detail or life to the story and add in emotion to the story as well
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The excerpt from this passage from the early environmnentalist John Muir I think would best appeal to the logic of the readers is " <span>Forty-seven years ago one of these Calaveras King Sequoias was laboriously cut down, that the stump might be had for a dancing-floor". This image graphically shows how huge these sequoias are that a stump from one of these giants is largest enough in diameter to serve as a dancing floor as this conveys a huge thick tree. </span>
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At first the giant built a wall to keep children out of his garden but then he learns compassion from the children and becomes happier.