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: up onto the tower during the sleep hour of the Gugs. If the Gugs
slept long, and the ghasts returned soon from their deed in the
cavern, the scent of the climbers might easily be picked up by
those loathsome and ill-disposed things; in which case it would
almost be better to be eaten by a Gug.
Then, after aeons of
climbing, there came a cough from the darkness above; and matters
assumed a very grave and unexpected turn.
It was clear that
a ghast, or perhaps even more, had strayed into that tower before
the coming of Carter and his guides; and it was equally clear
 The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |