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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: VIII
That my strange sense of compulsion was deep and overwhelming
is shewn by its conquest of my fear. No rational motive could
have drawn me on after that hideous suspicion of prints and the
creeping dream-memories it excited. Yet my right hand, even as
it shook with fright, still twitched rhythmically in its eagerness
to turn a lock it hoped to find. Before I knew it I was past the
heap of lately fallen cases and running on tiptoe through aisles
of utterly unbroken dust toward a point which I seemed to know
morbidly, horribly well.
My mind was asking itself questions
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