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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: the second half of his long manuscript. Once before, it appears,
Professor Angell had seen the hellish outlines of the nameless
monstrosity, puzzled over the unknown hieroglyphics, and heard
the ominous syllables which can be rendered only as "Cthulhu";
and all this in so stirring and horrible a connexion that it is
small wonder he pursued young Wilcox with queries and demands
for data.
This earlier experience had come in 1908, seventeen
years before, when the American Archaeological Society held its
annual meeting in St. Louis. Professor Angell, as befitted one
of his authority and attainments, had had a prominent part in
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