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: to long airless hibernation periods as well. Vocal organs seemed
present in connection with the main respiratory system, but they
presented anomalies beyond immediate solution. Articulate speech,
in the sense of syllable utterance, seemed barely conceivable,
but musical piping notes covering a wide range were highly probable.
The muscular system was almost prematurely developed.
The nervous
system was so complex and highly developed as to leave Lake aghast.
Though excessively primitive and archaic in some respects, the
thing had a set of ganglial centers and connectives arguing the
very extremes of specialized development. Its five-lobed brain
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