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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: shrubs and trees of coniferous aspect.
Flowers were small, colourless,
and unrecognizable, blooming in geometrical beds and at large
among the greenery.
In a few of the terrace and roof-top gardens
were larger and more blossoms of most offensive contours and seeming
to suggest artificial breeding. Fungi of inconceivable size, outlines,
and colours speckled the scene in patterns bespeaking some unknown
but well-established horticultural tradition. In the larger gardens
on the ground there seemed to be some attempt to preserve the
irregularities of Nature, but on the roofs there was more selectiveness,
Shadow out of Time |
