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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: mystery. I had felt it in October when we first caught sight of
Victoria Land, and I felt it afresh now. I felt, too, another
wave of uneasy consciousness of Archaean mythical resemblances;
of how disturbingly this lethal realm corresponded to the evilly
famed plateau of Leng in the primal writings. Mythologists have
placed Leng in Central Asia; but the racial memory of man - or
of his predecessors - is long, and it may well be that certain
tales have come down from lands and mountains and temples of horror
earlier than Asia and earlier than any human world we know. A
few daring mystics have hinted at a pre-Pleistocene origin for
the fragmentary Pnakotic Manuscripts, and have suggested that
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