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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: Archaean organisms, but the precaution seemed to have been taken
in vain. When left alone in that monstrous wind, behind flimsy
walls of insufficient height, they must have stampeded - whether
from the wind itself, or from some subtle, increasing odor emitted
by the nightmare specimens, one could not say.
But whatever
had happened, it was hideous and revolting enough. Perhaps I had
better put squeamishness aside and tell the worst at last - though
with a categorical statement of opinion, based on the first-hand
observations and most rigid deductions of both Danforth and myself,
that the then missing Gedney was in no way responsible for the
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