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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: be possible without the brain, proceeding from the spinal cord
and various nerve-centres; and second, whether any kind of ethereal,
intangible relation distinct from the material cells may exist
to link the surgically separated parts of what has previously
been a single living organism. All this research work required
a prodigious supply of freshly slaughtered human flesh -- and
that was why Herbert West had entered the Great War.
The phantasmal,
unmentionable thing occurred one midnight late in March, 1915,
in a field hospital behind the lines of St. Eloi. I wonder even
now if it could have been other than a daemoniac dream of delirium.
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