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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: West had never fully succeeded because he had never been able
to secure a corpse sufficiently fresh. What he wanted were bodies
from which vitality had only just departed; bodies with every
cell intact and capable of receiving again the impulse toward
that mode of motion called life. There was hope that this second
and artificial life might be made perpetual by repetitions of
the injection, but we had learned that an ordinary natural life
would not respond to the action. To establish the artificial motion,
natural life must be extinct -- the specimens must be very fresh,
but genuinely dead.
The awesome quest had begun when West and
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