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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: striking the bottom of an open shaft through which daylight poured
or trickled down - we were repeatedly tantalized by the sculptured
walls along our route. Many must have told tales of immense historical
importance, and only the prospect of later visits reconciled us
to the need of passing them by. As it was, we slowed down once
in a while and turned on our second torch. If we had had more
films, we would certainly have paused briefly to photograph certain
bas-reliefs, but time-consuming hand-copying was clearly out of
the question.
I come now once more to a place where the temptation
to hesitate, or to hint rather than state, is very strong. It
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