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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: of that city had themselves known the clutch of oppressive terror;
for there was a somber and recurrent type of scene in which the
Old Ones were shown in the act of recoiling affrightedly from
some object - never allowed to appear in the design - found in
the great river and indicated as having been washed down through
waving, vine-draped cycad forests from those horrible westward
mountains.
It was only in the one late-built house with the
decadent carvings that we obtained any foreshadowing of the final
calamity leading to the city’s desertion. Undoubtedly there must
have been many sculptures of the same age elsewhere, even allowing
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