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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: and have passed within, to whatever night-black fragments of the
past might await them in the ultimate gulf - the ultimate gulf
they had never seen. Or if that entrance, too, was blocked, they
would have gone on to the north seeking another. They were, we
remembered, partly independent of light.
Looking back to that
moment, I can scarcely recall just what precise form our new emotions
took - just what change of immediate objective it was that so
sharpened our sense of expectancy. We certainly did not mean to
face what we feared - yet I will not deny that we may have had
a lurking, unconscious wish to spy certain things from some hidden
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