Is this from existing literature?  Was it plagerized in any way? 
ASAP, must have answer by 7am tomorrow morning...thanks:

  Staggering from the intoxication
that the man thought was done by his friend as a joke, the man
witnessed an overwhelming feeling of pain in his inner chest.  He fell
to the ground unable to keep his balance or his lunch, shaking at an
uncontrollable speed.  Saliva was flung every which way.  His eyes and
ears started to trickle blood.  The man relieved his bladder in order
to relieve some of the pain in his body.His tongue lay half in his
mouth and half on the ground, severed frim the clenching of his teeth
to subdue the pain.  As all of these horrible events are occuring the
only thing  the man could think about was seeing his daughter on her
birthday the next day. Then suddenly the shaking stopped.  The pain
disappeared like smoke in the summertime.  The blood stopped exiting
from odd places.  But the unbearable throbbing of his incapacitated
tongue stayed with him as he had to deal with the uneasy feeling in
his pants.  The man waddled to the closest phone, called an ambulance
to inform them of his whereabouts, fell onto a bench and cried himself
to sleep.

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Request for Question Clarification by kyrie26-ga on 03 Feb 2003 12:34 PST

mitch52-ga,

Please provide the Title of this paper. It is a requirement for me to
do a lookup for you. Thanks!


kyrie26-ga

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Clarification of Question by mitch52-ga on 04 Feb 2003 09:58 PST

The student turned this in as his own work.  It was not consistent
with his writing.  We cannot find it on the internet.  Can you?

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Clarification of Question by mitch52-ga on 04 Feb 2003 09:59 PST

Title 


A Moment

mitch52...

For what it's worth...

A search for several exact phrases, such as 
"The man waddled to the closest phone, called an ambulance"
turned up no results whatsoever:
://www.google.com/search?q=%22The+man+waddled+to+the+closest+phone%2C+called+an+ambulance%22

sublime1-ga
Google Answers Researcher

I too ran several direct phrase checks and found no results.  Some terms I tried:

"The blood stopped exiting"
"incapacitated tongue"
"Saliva was flung every which way"

-THV

I would have to agree, this doesn't appear to be anything findable
online. I even tried a few of the sentences that would be difficult to
reword without changing the meaning/feeling.

"seeing his daughter on her birthday"
"His eyes and ears started to"
"cried himself to sleep" daughter birthday

I tried these through a number of different search engines. I'd say
the text is legit or obscure/doctored enough to be too difficult to
trace.

I have run the text through a couple of plagarism services, and
neither red-flagged it. It's either original or very obscure.

Hi mitch52,

At the risk of playing Monday morning critic and inadvertently
insulting some unidentified renowned writer who is intentionally
taking LOTS of literary license here, I don’t think it’s a stretch to
say that this paragraph you’ve cited is not taken from any piece of
published literature.

Look at it. The tense is all over the place,  the flow – well there is
none; the phrasing is contrived, and the descriptions are overworked.

To try and extract only the worst portions is a bit of work, but prime
offenders include –

“… intoxication that the man thought was done by his friend as a
joke…”

“…shaking at an uncontrollable speed.”

“As all of these horrible events are occuring the only thing  the man
could think about was seeing his daughter on her birthday the next
day.”

“…to inform them of his whereabouts..”


If this IS plagiarized, the student (I am assuming) should have chosen
a better source.


-K~