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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: column beside Pickman, and in front of the whole a double line
of riderless night-gaunts was provided as a vanguard. At a brisk
meep from Pickman the whole shocking army rose in a nightmare
cloud above the broken columns and crumbling sphinxes of primordial
Sarkomand; higher and higher, till even the great basalt cliff
behind the town was cleared, and the cold, sterile table-land
of Leng's outskirts laid open to sight. Still higher flew the
black host, till even this table-land grew small beneath them;
and as they worked northward over the wind-swept plateau of horror
Carter saw once again with a shudder the circle of crude monoliths
and the squat windowless building which he knew held that frightful
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