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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: anew after they had been stopped by the thing we call death, but
had encountered the most ghastly obstacles. The solution had to
be differently compounded for different types -- what would serve
for guinea-pigs would not serve for human beings, and different
human specimens required large modifications.
The bodies had
to be exceedingly fresh, or the slight decomposition of brain
tissue would render perfect reanimation impossible. Indeed, the
greatest problem was to get them fresh enough -- West had had
horrible experiences during his secret college researches with
corpses of doubtful vintage. The results of partial or imperfect
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