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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: the city wall and bore upon them all manner of merchandise from
the galleys anchored there, while at one end were great piles
of onyx both carved and uncarved awaiting shipment to the far
markets of Rinar, Ograthan and Celephais.
It was not yet evening
when the dark ship anchored beside a jutting quay of stone, and
all the sailors and traders filed ashore and through the arched
gate into the city. The streets of that city were paved with onyx
and some of them were wide and straight whilst others were crooked
and narrow. The houses near the water were lower than the rest,
and bore above their curiously arched doorways certain signs of
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