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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: the reserve specimens roughly set on the storage shelves in a
rear room of the museum, my eye was caught by an odd picture in
one of the old papers spread beneath the stones. It was the Sydney
Bulletin I have mentioned, for my friend had wide affiliations
in all conceivable foreign parts; and the picture was a half-tone
cut of a hideous stone image almost identical with that which
Legrasse had found in the swamp.
Eagerly clearing the sheet
of its precious contents, I scanned the item in detail; and was
disappointed to find it of only moderate length. What it suggested,
however, was of portentous significance to my flagging quest;
Call of Cthulhu |
