What happens when Edith, an English made, goes west and faces the unexpected?

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And now, The Unexpected by Jack London.

It is a simple matter to see the obvious.

It is a simple matter to see the obvious and do the expected.

The tendency of the individual life is to be static rather than dynamic, and this tendency is made into a propulsion by civilization

where it obviously only is seen and the unexpected rarely happens.

When the unexpected does happen however and when it is of sufficiently grave

import, the unfit perish. They do not see what is not obvious, and are unable to do the unexpected, are incapable of adjusting their well-groved lives to other and strange grooves.

In short, when they come to the end of their own groove, they die. On the other hand there are those who make towards survival

the fit individuals who escape from the rule of the obvious and the expected and adjust their lives to no matter what

strange grooves they may stray into or into which they may be forced.

Such an individual was Edith Wittelsy.

She was born in a rural district of England, where life proceeds by rule of thumb, and the

unexpected is so very unexpected that when it happens it is looked upon as an immorality.

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