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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: Lake party by the frightful wind of the preceding day, or of the
night before that. Eleven known dead, young Gedney missing. People
pardoned our hazy lack of details through realization of the shock
the sad event must have caused us, and believed us when we explained
that the mangling action of the wind had rendered all eleven bodies
unsuitable for transportation outside. Indeed, I flatter myself
that even in the midst of our distress, utter bewilderment, and
soul-clutching horror, we scarcely went beyond the truth in any
specific instance. The tremendous significance lies in what we
dared not tell; what I would not tell now but for the need of
warning others off from nameless terrors.
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