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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: tugged insistently at my brain as I recalled the awesome records
that once lay cased in those rectangular vaults of rustless metal.
There, said the dreams and legends, had reposed the whole history,
past and future, of the cosmic space-time continuum - written
by captive minds from every orb and every age in the solar system.
Madness, of course - but had I not now stumbled into a nighted
world as mad as I?
I thought of the locked metal shelves, and
of the curious knob twistings needed to open each one. My own
came vividly into my consciousness. How often had I gone through
that intricate routine of varied turns and pressures in the terrestrial
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