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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: of fear, so that the victim toppled at once into that gaping well
which rumour holds to reach down to the hellish Vaults of Zin
where Gugs hunt ghasts in the dark. In almost the same second
he seized the lamp from the altar and darted out into the frescoed
labyrinths, racing this way and that as chance determined and
trying not to think of the stealthy padding of shapeless paws
on the stones behind him, or of the silent wrigglings and crawlings
which must be going on back there in lightless corridors.
After
a few moments he regretted his thoughtless haste, and wished he
had tried to follow backward the frescoes he had passed on the
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