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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: -- I should faint if I tried it, for there is madness in a room
full of classified charnel things, with blood and lesser human
debris almost ankle-deep on the slimy floor, and with hideous
reptilian abnormalities sprouting, bubbling, and baking over a
winking bluish-green spectre of dim flame in a far corner of black
shadows.
The specimen, as West repeatedly observed, had a splendid
nervous system. Much was expected of it; and as a few twitching
motions began to appear, I could see the feverish interest on
West’s face. He was ready, I think, to see proof of his increasingly
strong opinion that consciousness, reason, and personality can
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