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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: for the sculptures showed many signs of the cold’s malign encroachments.
Vegetation was declining, and the terrible snows of the winter
no longer melted completely even in midsummer. The saunan livestock
were nearly all dead, and the mammals were standing it none too
well. To keep on with the work of the upper world it had become
necessary to adapt some of the amorphous and curiously cold-resistant
Shoggoths to land life - a thing the Old Ones had formerly been
reluctant to do. The great river was now lifeless, and the upper
sea had lost most of its denizens except the seals and whales.
All the birds had flown away, save only the great, grotesque penguins.
What had happened afterward we could only guess. How long had
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