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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: as he kept on laughing at intervals till death found him one night
in the cabin whilst Johansen was wandering deliriously.
But
Johansen had not given out yet. Knowing that the Thing could surely
overtake the Alert until steam was fully up, he resolved on a
desperate chance; and, setting the engine for full speed, ran
lightning-like on deck and reversed the wheel. There was a mighty
eddying and foaming in the noisome brine, and as the steam mounted
higher and higher the brave Norwegian drove his vessel head on
against the pursuing jelly which rose above the unclean froth
like the stern of a daemon galleon. The awful squid-head with
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