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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: perplexing blank with pseudo-memories might give rise to strange
imaginative vagaries.
This indeed - though an alternative folklore
theory finally seemed to me more plausible - was the belief of
many of the alienists who helped me in my search for parallel
cases, and who shared my puzzlement at the exact resemblances
sometimes discovered.
They did not call the condition true insanity,
but classed it rather among neurotic disorders. My course in trying
to track down and analyze it, instead of vaintly seeking to dismiss
or forget it, they heartily endorsed as correct according to the
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