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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: being the slant-eyed man made certain signs with his hands, and
the lurker in the dark replied by raising a disgustingly carven
flute of ivory in silk-covered paws and blowing certain loathsome
sounds from beneath its flowing yellow mask. This colloquy went
on for some time, and to Carter there was something sickeningly
familiar in the sound of that flute and the stench of the malodorous
place. It made him think of a frightful red-litten city and of
the revolting procession that once filed through it; of that,
and of an awful climb through lunar countryside beyond, before
the rescuing rush of earth's friendly cats. He knew that the creature
on the dais was without doubt the High-Priest Not To Be Described,
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