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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: to ten feet. It was composed mostly of prodigious blocks of dark
primordial slate, schist, and sandstone - blocks in many cases
as large as 4 x 6 x 8 feet - though in several places it seemed
to be carved out of a solid, uneven bed rock of pre-Cambrian slate.
The buildings were far from equal in size, there being innumerable
honeycomb arrangements of enormous extent as well as smaller separate
structures. The general shape of these things tended to be conical,
pyramidal, or terraced; though there were many perfect cylinders,
perfect cubes, clusters of cubes, and other rectangular forms,
and a peculiar sprinkling of angled edifices whose five-pointed
ground plan roughly suggested modern fortifications. The builders
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