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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: to be shunned as vaguely and namelessly evil. Cities built there
had crumbled before their time, and had been found suddenly deserted.
Then when the first great earth buckling had convulsed the region
in the Comanchian Age, a frightful line of peaks had shot suddenly
up amidst the most appalling din and chaos - and earth had received
her loftiest and most terrible mountains.
If the scale of the
carvings was correct, these abhorred things must have been much
over forty thousand feet high - radically vaster than even the
shocking mountains of madness we had crossed. They extended, it
appeared, from about Latitude 77°, E. Longitude 70° to Latitude
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