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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: machines formed of vitreous tubes and metal rods.
The windows
were glazed, and latticed with stout-looking bars. Though I dared
not approach and peer out them, I could see from where I was he
waving tops of singular fern-like growths. The floor was of massive
octagonal flagstones, while rugs and hangings were entirely lacking.
Later I had visions of sweeping through Cyclopean corridors
of stone, and up and down gigantic inclined planes of the same
monstrous masonry. There were no stairs anywhere, nor was any
passageway less than thirty feet wide. Some of the structures
through which I floated must have towered in the sky for thousands
 Shadow out of Time |