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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: in what cycle or incarnation he had known it, or whether in dream
or in waking, he could not tell. Vaguely it called up glimpses
of a far forgotten first youth, when wonder and pleasure lay in
all the mystery of days, and dawn and dusk alike strode forth
prophetic to the eager sound of lutes and song, unclosing fiery
gates toward further and surprising marvels. But each night as
he stood on that high marble terrace with the curious urns and
carven rail and looked off over that hushed sunset city of beauty
and unearthly immanence he felt the bondage of dream's tyrannous
gods; for in no wise could he leave that lofty spot, or descend
the wide marmoreal fights flung endlessly down to where those
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