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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: their wish, and that it is not agreeable to them to be harassed
by insistent pleas. They reminded him, too, that not only had
no man ever been to Kadath, but no man had ever suspected in what
part of space it may lie; whether it be in the dreamlands around
our own world, or in those surrounding some unguessed companion
of Fomalhaut or Aldebaran. If in our dreamland, it might conceivably
be reached, but only three human souls since time began had ever
crossed and recrossed the black impious gulfs to other dreamlands,
and of that three, two had come back quite mad. There were, in
such voyages, incalculable local dangers; as well as that shocking
final peril which gibbers unmentionably outside the ordered universe,
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