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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: Nowadays we set the beginning of the general glacial periods at
a distance of about five hundred thousand years from the present,
but at the poles the terrible scourge must have commenced much
earlier. All quantitative estimates are partly guesswork, but
it is quite likely that the decadent sculptures were made considerably
less than a million years ago, and that the actual desertion of
the city was complete long before the conventional opening of
the Pleistocene - five hundred thousand years ago - as reckoned
in terms of the earth’s whole surface.
In the decadent sculptures
there were signs of thinner vegetation everywhere, and of a decreased
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