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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: irrelevance nor home feeling. It had only horror, because I knew
unerringly the monstrous, nefandous analogy that had suggested
it. We had expected, upon looking back, to see a terrible and
incredible moving entity if the mists were thin enough; but of
that entity we had formed a clear idea. What we did see - for
the mists were indeed all too maliguly thinned - was something
altogether different, and immeasurably more hideous and detestable.
It was the utter, objective embodiment of the fantastic novelist’s
"thing that should not be"; and its nearest comprehensible analogue
is a vast, onrushing subway train as one sees it from a station
platform - the great black front looming colossally out of infinite
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