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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: the pursued to gauge the nature and course of its pursuer; or
perhaps it was an automatic attempt to answer a subconscious question
raised by one of our senses. In the midst of our flight, with
all our faculties centered on the problem of escape, we were in
no condition to observe and analyze details; yet even so, our
latent brain cells must have wondered at the message brought them
by our nostrils. Alterward we realized what it was-that our retreat
from the fetid slime coating on those headless obstructions, and
the coincident approach of the pursuing entity, had not brought
us the exchange of stenches which logic called for. In the neighborhood
of the prostrate things that new and lately unexplainable fetor
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