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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: into a mere morbid and ghoulish curiosity and secret sense of
charnel picturesqueness. His interest became a hellish and perverse
addiction to the repellently and fiendishly abnormal; he gloated
calmly over artificial monstrosities which would make most healthy
men drop dead from fright and disgust; he became, behind his pallid
intellectuality, a fastidious Baudelaire of physical experiment
-- a languid Elagabalus of the tombs.
Dangers he met unflinchingly;
crimes he committed unmoved. I think the climax came when he had
proved his point that rational life can be restored, and had sought
new worlds to conquer by experimenting on the reanimation of detached
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