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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: overhead before the myriad towering stories had fallen to dust
and debris and the desert. No need now, I thought with a shudder,
to keep that faint blur of moonlight in view.
I was torn betwixt
a longing to flee and a feverish mixture of burning curiosity
and driving fatality. What had happened to this monstrous megalopolis
of old in the millions of years since the time of my dreams? Of
the subterrene mazes which had underlain the city and linked all
the titan towers, how much had still survived the writhings of
earth's crust?
Had I come upon a whole buried world of unholy
Shadow out of Time |
