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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: The Pickman ghoul allowed several
hours for the night-gaunts to make up their rudimentary minds
and overcome their fear of flying over the sea, and kept the galley
standing about a mile off the jagged rock while he waited, and
dressed the wounds of the injured men. Night fell, and the grey
twilight gave place to the sickly phosphorescence of low clouds,
and all the while the leaders watched the high peaks of that accursed
rock for signs of the night-gaunts' flight. Toward morning a black
speck was seen hovering timidly over the top-most pinnacle, and
shortly afterward the speck had become a swarm. Just before daybreak
the swarm seemed to scatter, and within a quarter of an hour it
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