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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: prepared for the sensation which his offering created. One sight
of the thing had been enough to throw the assembled men of science
into a state of tense excitement, and they lost no time in crowding
around him to gaze at the diminutive figure whose utter strangeness
and air of genuinely abysmal antiquity hinted so potently at unopened
and archaic vistas. No recognised school of sculpture had animated
this terrible object, yet centuries and even thousands of years
seemed recorded in its dim and greenish surface of unplaceable
stone.
The figure, which was finally passed slowly from man
to man for close and careful study, was between seven and eight
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