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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: The very
prints of my shoes behind me in the millennially untrodden dust
made me shudder. Never before, if my mad dreams held anything
of truth, had human feet pressed upon those immemorial pavements.
Of the particular goal of my insane racing, my conscious mind
held no hint. There was, however, some force of evil potency pulling
at my dazed will and buried recollection, so that I vaguely felt
I was not running at random.
I came to a downward incline and
followed it to profounder depths. Floors flashed by me as I raced,
but I did not pause to explore them. In my whirling brain there
 Shadow out of Time |