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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: Meanwhile the displaced mind,
thrown back to the displacer's age and body, would be carefully
guarded. It would be kept from harming the body it occupied, and
would be drained of all its knowledge by trained questioners.
Often it could be questioned in its own language, when previous
quests into the future had brought back records of that language.
If the mind came from a body whose language the Great Race could
not physically reproduce, clever machines would be made, on which
the alien speech could be played as on a musical instrument.
The
Great Race's members were immense rugose cones ten feet high,
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