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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: I firmly thought the thin lips moved silently, forming syllables
which I would have vocalised as "only now" if that phrase had
possessed any sense or relevancy. At that moment, as I say, I
was elated with the conviction that the one great goal had been
attained; and that for the first time a reanimated corpse had
uttered distinct words impelled by actual reason. In the next
moment there was no doubt about the triumph; no doubt that the
solution had truly accomplished, at least temporarily, its full
mission of restoring rational and articulate life to the dead.
But in that triumph there came to me the greatest of all horrors
-- not horror of the thing that spoke, but of the deed that I
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