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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: and its gate of the abyss, though of how to get there they knew
nothing. Carter recalled that it lies in the valley below Leng,
and recalled likewise that he had seen in Dylath-Leen a sinister,
slant-eyed old merchant reputed to trade on Leng, therefore he
advised the ghouls to seek out Dylath-Leen, crossing the fields
to Nir and the Skai and following the river to its mouth. This
they at once resolved to do, and lost no time in loping off, since
the thickening of the dusk promised a full night ahead for travel.
And Carter shook the paws of those repulsive beasts, thanking
them for their help and sending his gratitude to the beast which
once was Pickman; but could not help sighing with pleasure when
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