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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: so that the Old Ones were again supreme on the planet except for
one shadowy fear about which they did not like to speak. At a
rather later age their cities dotted all the land and water areas
of the globe - hence the recommendation in my coming monograph
that some archaeologist make systematic borings with Pabodie’s
type of apparatus in certain widely separated regions.
The steady
trend down the ages was from water to land - a movement encouraged
by the rise of new land masses, though the ocean was never wholly
deserted. Another cause of the landward movement was the new difficulty
in breeding and managing the Shoggoths upon which successful sea
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