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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: were ruthless and purposeful, and they were behind him.
Carter's
pursuit of the yak became now a flight from an unseen thing, for
though he dared not glance over his shoulder he felt that the
presence behind him could be nothing wholesome or mentionable.
His yak must have heard or felt it first, and he did not like
to ask himself whether it had followed him from the haunts of
men or had floundered up out of that black quarry pit. Meanwhile
the cliffs had been left behind, so that the oncoming night fell
over a great waste of sand and spectral rocks wherein all paths
were lost. He could not see the hoofprints of his yak, but always
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