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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: cities except on the antarctic continent and the tip of South
America, nor any ocean cities north of the fiftieth parallel of
South Latitude. Knowledge and interest in the northern world,
save for a study of coast lines probably made during long exploration
flights on those fanlike membranous wings, had evidently declined
to zero among the Old Ones.
Destruction of cities through the
upthrust of mountains, the centrifugal rending of continents,
the seismic convulsions of land or sea bottom, and other natural
causes, was a matter of common record; and it was curious to observe
how fewer and fewer replacements were made as the ages wore on.
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