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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: their blood might inherit little memories very useful to a seeker.
They might not know their parentage, for the gods so dislike to
be known among men that none can be found who has seen their faces
wittingly; a thing which Carter realized even as he sought to
scale Kadath. But they would have queer lofty thoughts misunderstood
by their fellows, and would sing of far places and gardens so
unlike any known even in the dreamland that common folk would
call them fools; and from all this one could perhaps learn old
secrets of Kadath, or gain hints of the marvellous sunset city
which the gods held secret. And more, one might in certain cases
seize some well-loved child of a god as hostage; or even capture
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