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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: hampered the upward view, and Carter was for a moment shaken with
doubt lest it prove impassable. Poised in windy insecurity miles
above earth, with only space and death on one side and only slippery
walls of rock on the other, he knew for a moment the fear that
makes men shun Ngranek's hidden side. He could not turn round,
yet the sun was already low. If there were no way aloft, the night
would find him crouching there still, and the dawn would not find
him at all.
But there was a way, and he saw it in due season.
Only a very expert dreamer could have used those imperceptible
footholds, yet to Carter they were sufficient. Surmounting now
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