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: in exchange for an admission of membership in some widespread
mystical or paganly religious body. When Professor Angell became
convinced that the sculptor was indeed ignorant of any cult or
system of cryptic lore, he besieged his visitor with demands for
future reports of dreams. This bore regular fruit, for after the
first interview the manuscript records daily calls of the young
man, during which he related startling fragments of nocturnal
imaginery whose burden was always some terrible Cyclopean vista
of dark and dripping stone, with a subterrene voice or intelligence
shouting monotonously in enigmatical sense-impacts uninscribable
save as gibberish. The two sounds frequently repeated are those
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