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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: period an utterly alien existence typified at first by vocal and
bodily awkwardness, an later by a wholesale acquisition of scientific,
historic, artistic, and anthropologic knowledge; an acquisition
carried on with feverish zest and with a wholly abnormal absorptive
power. Then a sudden return of rightful consciousness, intermittently
plagued ever after with vague unplaceable dreams suggesting fragments
of some hideous memory elaborately blotted out.
And the close
resemblance of those nightmares to my own - even in some of the
smallest particulars - left no doubt in my mind of their significantly
typical nature. One or two of the cases had an added ring of faint,
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