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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: - speculate as widely as they chose. On the contrary, she seemed
strangely proud of the dark, goatish-looking infant who formed
such a contrast to her own sickly and pink-eyed albinism, and
was heard to mutter many curious prophecies about its unusual
powers and tremendous future.
Lavinia was one who would be apt
to mutter such things, for she was a lone creature given to wandering
amidst thunderstorms in the hills and trying to read the great
odorous books which her father had inherited through two centuries
of Whateleys, and which were fast falling to pieces with age and
wormholes. She had never been to school, but was filled with disjointed
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