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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: Discomfort and expectancy
were oddly mingled in most of us when at length our party of eighteen
rattled forth over the arid leagues of sand and rock. On Friday,
May 31st, we forded a branch of the De Grey and entered the realm
of utter desolation. A certain positive terror grew on me as we
advanced to this actual site of the elder world behind the legends
- a terror, of course, abetted by the fact that my disturbing
dreams and pseudo-memories still beset me with unabated force.
It was on Monday, June 3rd, that we saw the first of the half-buried
blocks. I cannot describe the emotions with which I actually touched
- in objective reality - a fragment of Cyclopean masonry in every
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