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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: we had met at some downtown bar of uncertain location. We had
all been rather jovial, and West and I did not wish to have our
pugnacious companion hunted down.
That same night saw the beginning
of the second Arkham horror -- the horror that to me eclipsed
the plague itself. Christchurch Cemetery was the scene of a terrible
killing; a watchman having been clawed to death in a manner not
only too hideous for description, but raising a doubt as to the
human agency of the deed. The victim had been seen alive considerably
after midnight -- the dawn revealed the unutterable thing. The
manager of a circus at the neighbouring town of Bolton was questioned,
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