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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: the dissected organism with a tarpaulin, emerged from the laboratory
tent, and studied the intact specimens with renewed interest.
The ceaseless antarctic sun had begun to limber up their tissues
a trifle, so that the head points and tubes of two or three showed
signs of unfolding; but Lake did not believe there was any danger
of immediate decomposition in the almost subzero air. He did,
however, move all the undissected specimens close together and
throw a spare tent over them in order to keep off the direct solar
rays. That would also help to keep their possible scent away from
the dogs, whose hostile unrest was really becoming a problem,
even at their substantial distance and behind the higher and higher
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