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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: when the thud of something on the newly heaped bones nearby drew
his notice from the other sound. It was the ladder, and after
a minute of groping he had it taut in his hands. But the other
sound did not cease, and followed him even as he climbed. He had
gone fully five feet from the ground when the rattling beneath
waxed emphatic, and was a good ten feet up when something swayed
the ladder from below. At a height which must have been fifteen
or twenty feet he felt his whole side brushed by a great slippery
length which grew alternately convex and concave with wriggling;
and hereafter he climbed desperately to escape the unendurable
nuzzling of that loathsome and overfed Dhole whose form no man
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