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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: as they rode west and he rode east on a zebra he bought of them.
Their older men gave him blessings and warnings, and told him
he had better not climb too high on Ngranek, but while he thanked
them heartily he was in no wise dissuaded. For still did he feel
that he must find the gods on unknown Kadath; and win from them
a way to that haunting and marvellous city in the sunset. By noon,
after a long uphill ride, he came upon some abandoned brick villages
of the hill-people who had once dwelt thus close to Ngranek and
carved images from its smooth lava. Here they had dwelt till the
days of the old tavernkeeper's grandfather, but about that time
they felt that their presence was disliked. Their homes had crept
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