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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: body could exhibit, without its head, any of the signs of mental
life which had distinguished Sir Eric Moreland Clapham-Lee. Once
a student of reanimation, this silent trunk was now gruesomely
called upon to exemplify it.
I can still see Herbert West under
the sinister electric light as he injected his reanimating solution
into the arm of the headless body. The scene I cannot describe
-- I should faint if I tried it, for there is madness in a room
full of classified charnel things, with blood and lesser human
debris almost ankle-deep on the slimy floor, and with hideous
reptilian abnormalities sprouting, bubbling, and baking over a
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