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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: entities on their way back from the abyss. The nameless scent
of such things was very distinct. Doubtless it was suicidally
foolish to venture into that tunnel under the known conditions,
but the lure of the unplumbed is stronger in certain persons than
most suspect - indeed, it was just such a lure which had brought
us to this unearthly polar waste in the first place. We saw several
penguins as we passed along, and speculated on the distance we
would have to traverse. The carvings had led us to expect a steep
downhill walk of about a mile to the abyss, but our previous wanderings
had shown us that matters of scale were not wholly to be depended
on.
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