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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: and the able-bodied troops were assigned to the oars or to such
other places as they might most usefully fill. Under the low phosphorescent
clouds of night the galley sailed, and Carter was not sorry to
be departing from the island of unwholesome secrets, whose lightless
domed hall with its bottomless well and repellent bronze door
lingered restlessly in his fancy. Dawn found the ship in sight
of Sarkomand's ruined quays of basalt, where a few night-gaunt
sentries still waited, squatting like black horned gargoyles on
the broken columns and crumbling sphinxes of that fearful city
which lived and died before the years of man.
The ghouls made
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