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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Herbert West: Reanimator by H. P. Lovecraft: West more and more irritating; but when he had gone to Ottawa
and through a colleague’s influence secured a medical commission
as Major, I could not resist the imperious persuasion of one determined
that I should accompany him in my usual capacity.
When I say
that Dr. West was avid to serve in battle, I do not mean to imply
that he was either naturally warlike or anxious for the safety
of civilisation. Always an ice-cold intellectual machine; slight,
blond, blue-eyed, and spectacled; I think he secretly sneered
at my occasional martial enthusiasms and censures of supine neutrality.
There was, however, something he wanted in embattled Flanders;
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